On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 20, 11:25 am, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Slower than you know -- the story is already a couple of days old.
> > What does it say when the immediacy of 24-hour cable news is scooped
> > by the NY Times?
>
> We're talking about a FOOD BLOG on the CNN web site, NOT the cable
> network or the main page on the web site.  I don't know what was on
> the web site when this was posted, but the web site right now has as
> its lead story.the fighting in Libya.  You're all sounding like the
> ClusterFox and Friends morons making cheap shots at CNN.
>

Speaking of which...

I followed the events yesterday (Sunday) on my computer with the good people
at al jazzeera (http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/). Sometime in the
evening I came across a blog post bashing all of the US cable news stations
for their crappy coverage of the story, saying they had almost no video or
reporters on scene, and were mostly talking studio heads. I clicked over to
cnn on my tv (by then probably 9:00 in the evening pacific time) and watched
for about 15 minutes. The coverage was not as good as AJ, but I did see a
couple of video pieces, and it looked like they had a reporter in Tripoli,
and another somewhere else in Libya. I went over to cnn.com, and they had
the dedicated section to the story in the prestige (upper left) portion of
their site - again not great, but not horrible.

I am wondering if anyone followed the events on CNN primarily, and can
comment on the quality of the coverage?

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