I was surprised to wake up to news that Gaddafi had died. It seemed the entirety of mainstream and indy media was treating it the same way that we treated bin Laden's death: as a skeptical idea until confirmed by other people. There seemed to be a lot of questions on if he was actually dead or if, like all the other times we had heard he was dead he was really alive.
Then there were videos of (presumably) Gaddafi's being kicked and the confirmation came through.
There were quite a few conflicting reports on what had happened. Some said that Gaddafi had been killed by his own people, which given that they have turned his compound into a tourist bazaar while it has been confirmed that he was shot after a NATO air strike.
For the United States and our media there isn't the same about of coverage for Gaddafi as there was for bin Laden. While
Democracy Now has been reporting from Libya and Egypt, Huffington Post is trying to keep up with the updates of the going on and the main stream is just keeping us updated with weird Gaddafi facts.
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