By: James Rainey | Los Angeles Times
Too bad a little shaky ground on the East Coast seized the better part of the news cycle Tuesday, because the real earthquake had already hit half a world away. And as Libyan rebels pushed into Moammar Kadafi's compound, cable television provided a riveting, front-row seat.
If you didn't get enough sense of moment seeing Alex Crawford of Britain's Sky News or Sara Sidner of CNN marching into Kadafi's once-seemingly invulnerable stronghold, then surely the danger and stakes came through as CNN's Matthew Chance told of being held hostage — short on power, food and water — with a group of journalists inside Tripoli's most luxurious hotel, the Rixos.
Satellite communication has become so commonplace, journalists so routinely intrepid and our attention so distracted by the roar of other events that it's easy to overlook when real journalism, and a bit of heroism, breaks out right before out eyes. This is the real reality TV.
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