Late yesterday evening chez nous, a quick skip through the news channels at the end of another eventful day....
BBC News 24 -- Lyse Doucet is in Tripoli, wearing a hard hat, fronting coverage of a group of youths doing donuts in a BMW in the centre of Green Square.
Sky News -- Anna Botting is in Zawiyah, no hard hat but less lip gloss than usual, presenting an interview with a young man who claims to be called Mr al-Windy and is wearing Col Gadhafi's rather baroque military hat, which he has just liberated from the colonel's bedroom.
CNBC -- alternating between Tripoli and the aftermath of the earthquake in Virginia.
Just to round off, let's see how al-Jazeera is covering all this. After all, they did a really good job at the time of the Egyptian uprising. Two minutes to go before they close for the night, so they're bound to finish with their take on the day's top stories. But what's this? "Samir Nasri has today completed his transfer from Arsenal to Manchester City".
Wow! Thanks a lot, Doha boys. If I'd stuck with the UK channels, I might have missed that.
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