One thing I was curious about was whether there’s less news out of Libya because it is a more thoroughly authoritarian state. There just aren’t a lot of foreign journalists there. Ever. Certainly nothing like Egypt. Egypt under Mubarak was far from Democratic. But it was full of foreign journalists. And in many ways quite open, at least compared to more intensely repressive states. What I’m hearing is that a number of major international news orgs are simply having immense difficulty getting their reporters into the country. Cooling their heels at border points of entry, unable to get in.
CNN has more on this front.
