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Saif Al Islam Gadaffi Captured

Rolling Coverage (January 2011)

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IS
Inspector Sands
Magoo posted:
Sky News showing live pictures from two correspondents inside Gaddafi's compound while BBC News cover other stories.

That's because the BBC are in a scheduled news programme
GI
ginnyfan
OK, CNN is doing much better now with Sara Sidner live and crazy gun fire around, Stuart Ramsey is in front of her cause I saw her behind him in Sky's shot.

What's BBC News/World doing, surely not taking the 6??
BC
Blake Connolly Founding member
Looks like the crowds gathered around Stuart Ramsey kept inadvertently blocking the signal.
MO
Moz
BBC News have seriously got this totally wrong. Pathetic coverage with some of the biggest names not even on the same map as Sky news people.

Matthew Price - stuck in a hotel. Yes it's not his fault he can't get out, but why go there if it was going to be under government control.

Rupert Wingfield Hayes - got into Tripoli but retreated back. Again, I don't know what sort of difficulties he's had, but why?

Orla Guerin - in Misrata, miles away, again why.

Daniel Sandford - just crossed border on the way in.

So, why are the BBC correspondents in the wrong place? Bad planning or just unlucky?
BB
bbcfan2014
Magoo posted:
Sky News showing live pictures from two correspondents inside Gaddafi's compound while BBC News cover other stories.

That's because the BBC are in a scheduled news programme


it's completely ridiculous- and frankly unacceptable- for them to adhere to their normal schedule and not do rolling coverage for that half an hour.
BC
Blake Connolly Founding member
CNN's Matthew Chance reporting gunfire in the Rixos. On Sunday night he said that there is a windowless safe room in the hotel, seems this is where the journalists have now gone. Very worrying.
MO
Moz
Wyre Davies now inside the compound. Only on the phone though.

What kept him?
MA
Magoo
Magoo posted:
Sky News showing live pictures from two correspondents inside Gaddafi's compound while BBC News cover other stories.

That's because the BBC are in a scheduled news programme

it's completely ridiculous- and frankly unacceptable- for them to adhere to their normal schedule and not do rolling coverage for that half an hour.

Agreed. That was the point I was hoping to make. I don't understand why the News Channel couldn't at the very least simulcast with World - terrible decision.
JP
jpeg987
Alex Crawford interviewing a rebel who has what he claims is Gadaffi's hat!
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Joshua
AlArabiya quoting Sky News quite a lot, the male anchor speaking over these pictures naming 'Alex Crawford'. Interesting to see given the impending launch of Sky News Arabia

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Sky News is surely streets ahead of the competition, aswell as the BBC. Their coverage seems very lackluster at the moment, ITV News surprisingly hasn't been great too, which is a shame as usually with big international stories they are one of the best. No sign of Bill Neilly either?
GI
ginnyfan
Sara Sidner single-handedly saving CNN's coverage today. Just walking around, filming stuff, interviewing rebels...
IS
Inspector Sands
Moz posted:

Matthew Price - stuck in a hotel. Yes it's not his fault he can't get out, but why go there if it was going to be under government control.

Before the regime effectively disappeared on Sunday/Monday did they have any choice of where they could stay as journalists? I'm pretty sure Sky were there too.

Of course, as I said a few pages back these things are mostly luck - where people are at a certain unpredictable moment

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