I have been mightily impressed by the BBCs Lyse Doucet in the last few days. Truly outstanding coverage and on scene anchoring. She has kept the balls well in the air over the last few days.
Good to see Nik Gowing at weekends. And good to know that BBC Tim is on the way to Egypt too. The BBC coverage has been excellent.
Some big names on at CNN too, but no one yet at the scene.
Who is on the spot for ITN and Sky?
Last edited by JamesWorldNews on 19 November 2011 1:55pm - 21 times in total
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Sky News have Tim Marshall in Cairo along with Stuart Ramsay, Dominic Waghorn and i think Alex Crawford is in Alexandria.
For ITN, ITV News' Middle East Correspondent John Ray has been coming out with some excellent eyewitness reports. I've always been generally impressed with his reports - and he always seems to throw himself in the thick of it!
I have been mightily impressed by the BBCs Lyse Doucet in the last few days. Truly outstanding coverage and on scene anchoring. She has kept the balls well in the air over the last few days.
Undoubtedly a really authoritative and consummate performer - who doesn't get enough exposure on domestic news. Just a shame her name wasn't recognised by Sophie Long the other day - who called her Lee-zay Doo-say.
It's likely that a regime like Egypt will be censoring foreign media they don't like the look of - and it's reasonably easy (if you've already got a satellite uplink) to jam someone else's carrier: you just bring up another carrier on top of it.
Of course, for someone like Al Jazeera, it's not too hard to book some space on another transponder, or another satellite, and begin broadcasting again.
BBC Persian has been jammed by Iran in the past; and then popped up on other satellites to try to get around the problem.
AJE are sticking to this like glue. They've stopped naming their correspondents since the bureau shut down - something they had done before Ben Ali left Tunisia - and are frequently advertising new frequencies for their Arabic services on the scroll at the bottom. The channel really comes into its own on major events in this region - it was excellent during Operation Cast Lead in 2009.
Al Jazeera was not knocked off air in the UK.
They were briefly off air in Egypt, but have changed frequencies and are back on.
Their Cairo office was shut down, but that seems not to have slowed them down much.
Al Jazeera have really wiped the floor with the BBC and Sky. IMO, the BBC and Sky have been sticking too much to the US and UK government line. AJE appear to be telling the story much more as it is.
AJE have done a very good job, and show no sign of stopping.