On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:55 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? >
I was not following the news or online until late Sunday night, so I can't say firsthand anything about this, but according to Mediaite, CNN and Fox News covered it live. MSNBC, however remained the Prison Channel until 8pm. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/covering-libya-who-was-there-who-wasnt-and-who-aired-a-body-snatching-doc/ -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
