It was indeed big news in europe. but i have to add, that none of the coverage that i've seen, provided what i wanted to see in it: an urge to support the protesters. It didn't mention if these protesters were 'the good ones' at all. and i didn't see any european representative supporting them, at least none in germany. we use this country as our own florida for generations, but don't seem to care that their generations have to live in some sort of soft-lybia.
> It didn't mention if these protesters were 'the good ones' at all.
I'm not sure if you are purposely using an Adam Curtis-ism or not here.
In Curtis' "Power of Nightmares" he discusses the simplification of news to "good versus evil". This is obviously a huge oversimplification. Sometimes the "good" swap places with the "evil", the victims become the people committing attrocities. This causes a problem: the changeable nature of "who is the goodie?" doesn't fit in with simplified news reporting. To explain the role switch to viewers, a lot of additional information needs to be provided. This would kill ratings. He argues that this change has led to the death of tv news.
The coverage on BBC Radio 4 this morning certainly made it sound like the outgoing regime was pretty corrupt and that the protesters had legitimate grievances. As I am about 90% asleep when listening to the news in the morning they couldn't have been very subtle about this message.
Seems to be that the bbc takes a better stand on this. in german tv and radio 50% of the coverage is about the tourists being brought back home. the rest tends to be focused on the turmoil and chaos, rather than the purpose of it all.
