Both the Beeb and Al Jazeera take stick over election coverage

i didnt manage to stay awake for the US coverage on Tuesday night,good intentions giving way to heavy eyelids.

I get the impression that the BBC has come in for a great deal of critisism so much so that people were actually switching to ITV

Dave Lee has written his thoughts on the coverage which are well worth a read.

Amongst his critique are accusations that David Dimbleby looked tired from the start,that the coverage was routine,that it was slow in responding to breaking news and its use of two rather unimportant bloggers


Meanwhile it is not just the BBC that comes under attack.The English version of Al Jazeera was described as

a bit like watching a local college TV station attempt to compete with the big boys. No matter how hard they try, it’s just not the real thing.

by Lawrence Pinkac on Arab Media and society.

According to Lawrence it was

Another missed opportunity for the two-year old channel that has yet to live up to its potential to produce true borderless journalism

Back though to Dimbleby who according to the Indy's Pandora

yesterday faced unflattering catcalls to be pensioned off, over his handling of the BBC's coverage of the US election from Washington.
The veteran broadcaster twice clashed with his guests, once with Simon Schama and with George Bush's walrus-faced former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton.