Week 4

Week 4

 Death of Gadaffi coverage on BBC Radio

Gadaffi former leader of Libya was captured alive on Thursday the 20^th of October 2011 after an eight month uprising that ended his 42 year dictatorship. The tyrant was cut off from escaping the town of Siert by Nato airstrikes, and was later found hiding in a storm drain where rebels lead him through the streets before executing him.

I listened to three different BBC radio stations on the day after his capture and execution, and each had a different approach to this news article. 

Radio 1 Newsbeat covered the main headlines of the story in a 15 minuet timeslot in which it told us a brief summary of what had happened the day before and focused on the joy of the Libyan people since the death of the dictator.

Radio 5 Live Drive was more informative news coverage of the story as it evolved across three hour news with interviews from people in Libya who witnessed the capture of Gadaffi, and a discussion with correspondence about country now he is gone.

BBC radio Sussex only has a brief on the hour every hour news bulletin about the situation in Libyan which it gave brief news summery of the events.