Big names passing on their wisdom @jfjbowen @jonsnowC4 and the good Dr Harb #mediaOTforum pic.twitter.com/d0ro2gfhom/d0ro2gfh- Excellent panel tonight #mediaOTforum http://yfrog.com/hwfg0lbj g0lbj
Dr Zahera Harb: not just the west shocked by the revolts, we in the Arab world were also shocked #mediaotforum
The only truth in Syria is that civilians are victims and human rights abuses are occurring on both sides-Dr Zahera Harb #mediaotforum
#mediaOTforum in Syria both govt and rebels are competing to gain narrative supremacy says Zahera Harb and finishes to large applause
Proof that #mediaotforum influences things - Jeremy Bowen trending on Twitter tonight. @cityjournalism pic.twitter.com/Y1lxBXT7om/Y1lxBXT7
"no country is immune to these changes" Jeremy Bowen. He says we have entered a period of change that may well last a decade #mediaOTforum
Bowen: Even the organisers of the Tahrir Sq protests had no idea how big it was going to be. Took everyone by surprise #mediaOTforum
RT @georgielw: Tahrir sq a perfect media event...dramatic, important and importantly short says @jfjbowen #mediaOTforum
J Bowen: BBC budgeters wanted Arab Spring to be over by summer, after Egypt a sense of "where do we go next"? #mediaotforum- Bowen: in Tahrir Sq ppl intoxicated with the thought of speaking freely to the cameras, asking "why aren't you filming it" #mediaotforum
You want to get a good clip from someone coherent - so you pick people who think the same way that you do. Bowen #mediaOTforum- J. Bowen - the only way I got the last interview with Gaddafi was because of my friendship with Marie Colvin. #mediaOTforum
Guy in the audience asks for advice on going to Syria in a few weeks. Awkward silence #goodluck #mediaOTforum- J Bowen: Reporting in Syria was less restricted than I expected. "I felt I got a 360 degree view of what was going on" #mediaotforum
I started a queue after #mediaOTforum to get a picture with my hero @jonsnowC4. Here I am with the legend :) pic.twitter.com/ZoJk6FWbom/ZoJk6FWb
Snow: We didn't do terribly well in coverage of Arab Spring. Each story was unique. The temptation to roll each story into one #mediaotforum- Jon Snow: on arriving at Tahrir Square assumed it would be a committed religious uprising but soon realised the mix of people #mediaotforum
@jonsnowC4 recalls moment an Egyptian expat cried in the c4 studio while on a two way with his son in Tahrir square #mediaotforum- .@jonsnowC4 regrets how western media failed to cover revolts in Saudi Arabia - didn't really understand what was going on #mediaOTforum
- Jon Snow: I still believe protests in Saudi yet to come #mediaotforum
- Jon Snow: Bahrain covered badly because difficult to cover and brutal set up for press #mediaotforum
Jon Snow #mediaOTforum London putting pressure on media to find those wanting to impose Shahria law and scare the pants off us
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