rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2011-01-29 04:21 pm

Egypt

Anyone else as irritated with CNN's coverage as I am right now?

[identity profile] hoyland54.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
FWIW, the Al Jazeera English stream is supposed to be quite good. But, uh, it doesn't work on my computer, so I've got the Guardian blogging CNN and Al Jazeera.

No comment on CNN, though, as I've not got cable.

[identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm getting all my News through twitter...
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[identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. Or various posts on Dreamwidth and LJ. I gave up on getting any meaningful news off CNN a long time ago.

[identity profile] lonebear.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
you mean they are claiming to cover this? I'm lucky. Verizon FIOS MD has Al Jazeera english.
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[identity profile] canaana.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. What's worse, of the couple of 24-hour news networks we have on cable, they're probably the best of them. :-(
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[identity profile] pantryslut.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but every time I glance into the news networks I am.

[identity profile] cpolk.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
why would I watch CNN when I can watch Al-Jazeera English?

[identity profile] vashtan.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Watching Al-Jazeera, too. This... is amazing.

[identity profile] nysidra.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Al-Jazeera is kicking CNN's whole ass.

[identity profile] 1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
They just seem to be running the same things over and over. MSNBC isn't covering it at all right now, they're running some show about wives hiring contract killers.

[identity profile] snufflesdbear.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I had options. Since I can not stream, I have to wait for info to pop up on the various print feeds. So, mostly, I am just shutting off the TV. (and the fact my tooth is infected - again - and to sore to stay upright much, I just check on the every couple of hours).

[identity profile] sihaya09.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
I've been irritated with CNN's coverage of pretty much EVERYTHING of late.

[identity profile] bodlon.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS. Which bums me out something terrible. I grew up watching CNN with my grandma.

(Well, that and The Golden Girls. And Johnny Carson.)

Fucking CNN. They're messing with my childhood here, man!

[identity profile] marieoroumania.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
My other ex-CNN friends and I are all laughing about it right now. They're ripping and reading. Morons! CNN's Middle East coverage has always been kind of a joke - Al-Jazeera's great.

[identity profile] ziyda.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
I found this odd timing: "The chief of staff of Egypt’s armed forces, Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Enan, was due to meet this Monday with Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and remain with his delegation in Washington through next Wednesday. But as the protests intensified on Friday, he and his group headed for the airport."
from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/world/middleeast/29diplo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Obama%20Cautions&st=cse

[identity profile] tdanaher.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can get various Al Jazeera apps from the App Store. They're free and you can watch live streams of the broadcasts on the iDevice.
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[identity profile] kyburg.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
*raises hand*