Just like most Americans. Including the ones in Washington. My sister's one of the smartest people I know. Her only mistake was in believing, as most of us have been trained to believe since birth, that TV is a good way to learn about a subject in depth. It is not.
TV is a good way to learn about which subjects are on fire.
Soon, CNN showed Serbian videotape of the prisoners. CNN also reported that the three captured servicemen had not yet been identified. CNN's anchors repeated this several dozen times for over two hours, often as the Serbian video was playing on the air. Figuring this out was hardly a stretch. Serbian is phonetic, albeit with Cyrillic characters.