Saif Al Islam Gadaffi Captured

The Grim Realities of reporting revealed ....

CBS Reporter Lara Logan sexually assaulted

more….

WWW.REUTERS.COM
15-Feb-2011 @ 23:06

Is she the one who used to work for GMTV?

Scratch that, it says right there that she did!

As someone who lived and worked in Libya for many years, it's astonishing to see the crumbling of the regime and one wonders how this will be played out by the Colonel. It goes to show, however, that even in today's era of social media and 24 hour news media, we still can't get the same output from Libya that we experienced from Egypt just recently, making the events all the more difficult to report.

Jim Muir on the Tunisia/Libya border, displaying his Arabic language skills on BBC World at the moment.

The BBC have been running with the first live pictures from Benghazi in the last 15 minutes or so, showing thousands of demonstrators celebrating. Sky have also picked up the pictures in the last few minutes, and Sky now also have Alex Rossi reporting from Al-Bayda inside Lybia.

Goodness knows how this is going to end . . .

Ben Brown now on the Libyan/Tunisian border for the BBC

Andrew Wilson doing a good job leading Sky's ramped up coverage from Tobruk, East Libya. Dominic Waghorn is in Benghazi.

Impressive to see Sky's report from Tobruk/Benghazi was recorded in HD.

libyan state tv (al jamahirya) is fascinating ... if a little repetitive.

http://watchtvlivestreaming.com/tvlive/b1951

Jeremy Bowen has got an interview with Colonel Gaddafi

Lyse anchoring World News Today live from Benghazi. Such an event would have been unthinkable just days ago.

few caps from libyan state tv...

ident


main evening news 10pm local time


intriguing rotating globe behind the presenter, which appears to be missing australia. deliberate i wonder?


the map on the wall however includes oz.


the context of this promo appears to show the station's young presenters backing the colonel


snippet of the BBC interview - bowen asking brother leader about his foreign bank accounts


output appears to be...
- a mix of endless montages of pro protesters
- phone-in shows where callers are uninterupted for many many minutes at a time, talking about the colonel
- news bulletins
- random snippets of protest related reports. my particular favourite being an interview with a romanian [industial/oil] worker, the jist of what he was saying was ... he has access to 140 romanian tv channels, none-of which talk of 'problems' in lybia. he has seen a short report on cnn, everything is calm

Goodness Gracious Me! That set looks as though it is trying to replicate the Leptis Magna Ruins which are on the outskirts of Tripoli. I like how they have even gone to the extent of having a sticker of the channel logo on the back of the laptop! What type of channel would ever do a thing like that...................?

Has anyone noticed that whilst Lyse Doucet is seemingly able to broadcast live and open-ended from Benghazi by satellite, Nic Robertson of CNN (in Tripoli) is appearing very frequently but for extremely short segments? It's like they go to him for a minute and then go back to him for a minute after a gap of ten minutes, and so on........guess they are having trouble with the lines in Tripoli?

AJE is also bringing extended live coverage from Benghazi as well.