The Middle East is seeing revolt on a massive scale. Egypt’s revolution was covered by another writer but this week I have pitched a Libya story idea to Elliot, the Current affairs section editor and he has said to run with it. I have quite a good understanding of the Middle East and I’ve been following the events throughout.
A standard news piece I broke it down into three parts. As with my previous articles I opened with some history, this time regarding Colonel Gaddafi. The ‘Day of Rage’ protests were the catalyst for the break out of serious violence between Pro-government and Rebel forces so I hooked onto that.
Finding reliable and accurate information from Libya was a challenge because unlike the Egyptian revolution, there is a media blackout. Journalists are seemingly not welcome to report on the conflict.
Al Jazzera was probably the best source of mainstream information I found this week.
The story ends with some information regarding the UK’s involvement. I thought this was vital so as to balance the piece against the domestic problems Libya faced.
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