On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:55 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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/ > Thanks for this. I have been trying to track down the source of the original post I read, or any basis for a negative critique of CNN's coverage of this story, but have not been able to find it. I have not been a fan of CNN's coverage of actual news in recent years, but from what I can tell they have been doing a good job with the Libya story as it has broken over the weekend and into the week. I have learned the names of the two CNN journalists I saw Sunday evening, Matthew Chance, who was with the regime in Tripoli, and has given some riveting reports from the Rixos Hotel, and Sarah Sidner, who was kind of embedded with the rebels on the road to Tripoli and has been giving some really interesting reports from the compound this morning. I remember Sidner from her days as a local reporter in Oakland at KTVU - she left in 2007 for CNNI (it looks like most of what we are seeing on CNN is from the International), and she made a name covering the Mumbai attacks in 2008. I have been staying away from CNN for a while, so maybe they have been doing this on other stories, but I notice that they have been going out of their way to give the name of her camera operator (they were both in some pretty hairy situations - this morning surrounded by celebrating rebels firing an amazing volume of bullets into the air, and Sidner seemed to get hit by an ejected shell casing at one point. ** http://onmilwaukee.com/movies/articles/cnninlibya.html?27320 -- 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
