There have been some interesting, informative TV coverage of Egypt.
And then there was last night’s Charlie Rose (2/3/11), with special guests Tom Friedman and Henry Kissinger.
Peter Hart
Peter Hart was the activist director of FAIR for 15 years, as well as the co-host of FAIR's radio show CounterSpin. He is now the senior field communications officer for Food & Water Watch.
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I loved Piers Morgan interviewing Mort Zuckerman and Marty Peretz. Peretz kept blathering that all the journalists in Egypt were narcissists. It was awful.
The crisis in Egypt has served to bring home the sheer ignorance of our media taking heads, who babble platitudes on subjects they know nothing about, and their hosts, who play up anything remotely sensationalistic, which then echoes all through the corporate media as it it were fact. Example: CNN rising star Piers Morgan, who regards the use of Twitter and Facebook as “the most fascinating aspect of this whole revolution.” This sheer, blithering ignorance has become a given on planet media.
Frank Rich quite good on the subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/opinion/06rich.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=frank+rich&st=cse