Alex Crawford of Sky News as rebels enter heart of Tripoli

[Waiting For Everyman]

Run time: 04:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhc4-6gk9V8   Posted on YouTube: August 21, 2011 By YouTube Member: ScarceMedia Views on YouTube: 301   Posted on DU: August 22, 2011 By DU Member: Waiting For Everyman Views on DU: 871

 
Here's a UK Telegraph article about the video as well:

Libya: Sky News reporter Alex Crawford praised for dramatic Tripoli reporting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8714868/Libya-Sky-News-reporter-Alex-Crawford-praised-for-dramatic-Tripoli-reporting.html

[Turborama]

1. Sky just repeated this on TV and it was fascinating TV and worth watching again.Thanks for posting

And for the link.

K&R

[jakeXT]

2. I hope she is ok

Following her dramatic reports of the rebel assault on Tripoli this week, it now appears that Sky News's Alex Crawford will forever be the journalist linked to the Libyan rising of 2011. As she and her crew rode into Tripoli on the back of a rebel pickup truck, with the vehicle's cigarette lighter socket powering the live satellite linkup, viewers admired her bravery and tenacity in seemingly being the first broadcast journalist to enter the city with the rebels. In chaotic scenes, she explained that she was wearing a helmet and flak-jacket only to protect her from celebratory gunfire: "I don't want any bullets landing on my head." A few hours later she was reporting from the "horrendous conditions" inside Tripoli's only functioning hospital.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/22/alex-crawford-sky-reporter-libya