I watched a few minutes of CNN this morning, and heard them say that in a hotel in Tripoli reporters were expecting Gaddafi to appear and speak to the reporters. Any minute now. This was about 9 a.m. central time. I went to the gym at about seven hours later, and the "breaking news" bar at the bottom of the screen there was still reporters waiting for Gaddafi to appear. Sound was off, so I just occasionally glanced at the screen if something was happening. And something was indeed happening. Grainy, cell-phone quality footage and the bar at the bottom says "Gaddafi arrives at reporters' hotel" or something similar; he was expected to speak any minute now. By the end of my workout something had happened again: Gaddafi had left the building without addressing the reporters.
Seven hours of hype, it'll happen any minute! And what an anti-climax it was. It appeared all the more comical to me when I was following it muted. Anyway CNN-style choppy reporting 24/7 is not really my thing. Many other newscasts such as CBS or NBC focus on local news which is just as well to most people but I crave a more global perspective. So whenever I remember, and am at home, I'll turn to the PBS broadcast of BBC World News. The most important news stories from around the world condenced into 30 minutes of broadcast. Probably with a bit of a European perspective, but for obvious reasons I don't mind that.
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