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Saif Al Islam Gadaffi Captured

Rolling Coverage (January 2011)

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DV
dvboy
Inspector Sands posted:
dvboy posted:
CNNi have just broke away from the CNN-US coverage. All the US networks are now showing pictures of people wandering around streets of New York and Washington (yawn).

You may say yawn but it's a fairly big story, and a nice change from Libya especially on Sky


I'm not saying it's not a big story, just that the shots they were showing were of relatively nothing. I'd have thought that the channels mainly being based on the East Coast would be able to play footage of the moment the quake hit.
JC
JCB
dvboy posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
dvboy posted:
CNNi have just broke away from the CNN-US coverage. All the US networks are now showing pictures of people wandering around streets of New York and Washington (yawn).

You may say yawn but it's a fairly big story, and a nice change from Libya especially on Sky


I'm not saying it's not a big story, just that the shots they were showing were of relatively nothing.


Have you never watched a 24/7 rolling news channel before?
GI
ginnyfan
dvboy posted:
CNNi have just broke away from the CNN-US coverage. All the US networks are now showing pictures of people wandering around streets of New York and Washington (yawn). No doubt there will be video of the moment the quake hit some of the news studios.


They did it too late, after 40 minutes of boring accounts from Wolf and every other CNN office on how they felt during the quake, big deal... Rolling Eyes
Another fail for CNNI today...
DV
dvboy
Perhaps they had told Richard Quest not to bother coming in, expecting to simulcast for most of the evening.
PT
Paul T
dvboy posted:
Sky News broke away briefly to cover that too, but returned to Tripoli to show rebels jumping on Gadaffi's golf buggy.


And then Fox News bizarrely took the Sky pictures of the quake...!

Sky are doing well this week, but to beat Fox in Washington DC!?!
PT
Paul T
jagjeet21 posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
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.


Don't forget though that the BBC One bulletin will get the pick of the correspondents for that half hour, so on a major story the coverage might actually be better by taking the Six (hence why World sometimes take it as well).

The News Channel splitting is only really worthwhile for things like press conferences.
DV
dvboy
Paul T posted:
dvboy posted:
Sky News broke away briefly to cover that too, but returned to Tripoli to show rebels jumping on Gadaffi's golf buggy.


And then Fox News bizarrely took the Sky pictures of the quake...!

Sky are doing well this week, but to beat Fox in Washington DC!?!


I posted about that in the Sky News thread.

Shepard Smith on Fox News was calling it "full on weird-mode", has just said "everything is OK", and that they are going to cover Libya after the break happening now; "if you want more on the earthquake, I suggest a channel change."

After the break and they're playing Alex Crawford's coverage from earlier.
Last edited by dvboy on 23 August 2011 9:01pm - 2 times in total
GM
Gary McEwan
I don't know if this has been covered or not, but why do various TV channels, especially in the US spell Gaddafi's in so many different way's?

NBC - Khaddafy
CNNi and CNN US - Gadhafi
CBS - Qaddafi

And yet all the UK channels spell it as Gaddafi??

Any ideas as to why this is?
DV
dvboy
Gaz McEwan posted:
I don't know if this has been covered or not, but why do various TV channels, especially in the US spell Gaddafi's in so many different way's?

NBC - Khaddafy
CNNi and CNN US - Gadhafi
CBS - Qaddafi

And yet all the UK channels spell it as Gaddafi??

Any ideas as to why this is?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi#Transliteration_of_his_Arabic_name
WW
WW Update
Funnily enough, I don't think any major news organization, British or American, uses the spelling found in the title of this thread! Wink
AN
Ant
Gaz McEwan posted:
I don't know if this has been covered or not, but why do various TV channels, especially in the US spell Gaddafi's in so many different way's?

NBC - Khaddafy
CNNi and CNN US - Gadhafi
CBS - Qaddafi

And yet all the UK channels spell it as Gaddafi??

Any ideas as to why this is?


I've also noticed that in the US they tend to use his full name, whereas over here it's almost exclusively Colonel Gaddafi.
DF
DrewF
Lyse Doucet tweeted his name as Qaddafi.

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