So the battle for tripoli has started

[nadinbrzezinski]

and for a classic thing about our nooz media... CNN, the LEADER in nooz is not covering this. MSNBC is on lockup... and per usual I have to follow this on twitter. There was a time that CNN would cover breaking nooz... but that was another decade.

[Posteritatis]

1. It's the top story on BBC at least

It's a couple down on CBC, but we just had a 737 crash so that's somewhat understandable.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. A 737 would do that, now you picked my interest

will search for it

[Electric Monk]

4. The word you're looking for is "piqued" not "picked"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/08/20/north-air-crash.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Found it, and it is a tragedy

understandable that CBC would put it at number one story.

[Electric Monk]

3. re: "have to follow this on twitter" it was posted here over 6 hours ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1779197&mesg_id=1779197

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. And the point is that six hours on CNN, the leader in world wide nooz

is still on regular programing. Why is this so hard to understand.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

7. Aljazeera English is covering if you are fortunate to have a local carrier or Internet link. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. AJE is becoming our leader in nooz

Wow CNN is just going into breaking nooz

[hedgehog]

9. CNN International does a pretty good job. I'm not sure of the corporate link,

but it doesn't make sense that CNN here in the States never picks up the coverage that's out there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. And they used to, that is the point

[applegrove]

11. vibes to all the people there. vibes that Qadaffi gives up soon.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Running AJE on the IPOD right now

and all they can confirm is that the battle has started... and that some sections are controlled by rebels

[eleny]

15. Thanks for the tip - I just downloaded the app

[Cleita]

13. I haven't streamed Al Jazeera today yet, but they have

been covering it every day.

[gateley]

14. At work I watched on AJE live. They also covered other NEWS

stories.

[Posteritatis]

16. It's kinda disorienting, isn't it?

I had it going for awhile this evening; the closest things to fluff were a comparison of the iPad 2 with one of the other new ones (fair enough in this day and age), and a human-interest piece about a Muslim football team in Dearborn, MI handling training, August and Ramadan fasting simultaneously (which was pretty interesting).

[eleny]

17. Just for grins I turned on the tv...

CNN - Piers Morgan rerun. An interview with Jimmy Fallon
Fox - Some sort of justice show discussing "...the week's biggest legal stories"

Al Jazeera rocks like CNN did back in Turner's day.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. And they have the assets

CNN-I does compete with AJE... but they chose not to just stream their own CNN-I... at this point one has to conclude it is on purpose and reminds me off Pravda really, or 1984...

[pinboy3niner]

18. CNN did good coverage of this today

They had live reports every hour from Matthew Chance in Tripoli (who reported, for example, that at the Rixos he could hear exchanges of gunfire in the streets while Moussa Ibrahim was on state TV telling people that 'violent gangs' had been dealt with), and from Sara Sidner with the rebels in Zawiya.

The problem is that the cable network later went from their news shows to other scheduled programming, including Piers Morgan's interview show.

Check back in another 24 minutes when they go to 'CNN Newsroom.'

Some of today's reporting was posted at the 'Videos' page on their website:

Libyan rebels advance on Tripoli (4:19)
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/08/20/exp.seg.tripoli.explosion.fighting.cnn

'Mayhem has broken out in Tripoli' (3:16)
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/08/20/mchance.tripoli.shooting.cnn

Libya rejects rebel claims about Gaddafi (2:15)
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/08/20/exp.nr.whitfield.chance.libya.cnn

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. I have had it for four hours, and really nothing beyond mentions

I understand the difficulty in confirming anything... but there was a time CNN used to really cover these things. These days I turn to AJE, and twitter... and it is telling about how isolated the US has become news wise.

By the way, not that I can confirm this, UAE consulate reopens with Rebel ambassador and so far 35 countries have recognized the rebel government.

Here on the Consulate


carmelialacerKS carmelialacer
bit.ly/pD1eZp :P Libyan consulate reopens in UAE with new rebel envoy libya news
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[pinboy3niner]

22. That was the Dubai consulate

Tunis also announced recognition of NTC.I think I posted the news on both in the current Libyan Revolution thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1776980

CNN reporting on Libya now...

[WCGreen]

20. If there was a celebrity involved, they would break in...

After CNN now stands for Certainly Not News...

[pinboy3niner]

23. The latest from CNN...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1776980&mesg_id=1781937

[pinboy3niner]

24. The Guardian has opened its live blog on a Sunday (very rare)

Live blogging on events in Libya has begun, with Peter Walker manning the blog:

Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/middle-east-live/2011/aug/21/libya-syria-israel-middle-east-unrest