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    Libya coverage turns CNN’s Sara Sidner into a star

    Sidner (CNN)During the news coverage of Libya over the weekend, women took center stage. As the Huffington Post's Jack Mirkinson noted on Monday, three of the top networks providing coverage--Sky News, Al Jazeera, and CNN--all had female correspondents on the ground offering "intense, riveting accounts."

    CNN's Sara Sidner has become something of a celebrity in journalism circles. On Wednesday, the Daily Beast published a profile of Sidner, calling her the "the hottest broadcast star on the globe." Lois Romano interviewed Sidner, who was still on the ground in Tripoli. "It's such an historic moment. The city is very much under the control of the rebels; the city is so clearly in the rebels' hands that you're focused on telling the story in a very difficult situation. My mother is not happy about that," Sidner told Romano.

    Sidner has been working in broadcast journalism for 15 years, Romano reports, and is based in New Delhi.

    You can watch a video of Sidner reporting on Aug. 23 amid celebratory gunfire below. "I can feel the ground shaking there is so much gunfire," she says at one point.

    Sidner has continued her reporting from Tripoli, filing a piece today for CNN in which she takes viewers into a network of tunnels controlled by Moammar Gadahfi under Tripoli. She describes the tunnels as "almost an entire city." At one point the guards become spooked, but Sidner continues on her tour, seemingly unfazed.

     

    263 comments

    • David  •  9 mths ago
      Hopefully she is also getting this story here out which is straight from the middle east:
      Members of the Al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group – LIFG, are in control of the former strongholds of Muammar Qaddafi captured by Libyan rebels last Sunday, Aug. 21, debkafile reports from Libyan sources. Their chief Abd Al-Hakim Belhadj, an al Qaeda veteran from Afghanistan, now calls himself "Commander of the Tripoli Military Council." A US source confirms that NATO's British and French special forces opened Tripoli's door to the rebels. Now, the LIFG is unlikely to relinquish power to the NTC.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Free opinion that invaluable sacrifices of national/international heroes let me possess: THANK ALL LIBYANS (NOT AS "RATS" OR "PRO-GADDAFIS") FOR YOUR RELATIVELY DISCIPLINED YET DETERMINED TRANSITIONS_ WE ARE APPRECIATING FROM THE MEDIA!
    • ahmed  •  9 mths ago
      she used to be a vallyballer in fact i saw her playing in florida .. she is hot and she has the best smile on earth .. she is very hot and still as hot as ever .. i love you sara .. good luck with the fame that is best deserved .
    • wang58  •  9 mths ago
      CNN totally lame, liberal crap!!
    • PM  •  9 mths ago
      I have six people who adore me (my family) - by the standards set forth here, I too must be a star too (given the nearly non-existent ratings of CNN).
    • mudslideslim  •  9 mths ago
      CNN=Communist News Network
      • PM 9 mths ago
        The Commies (TASS) are fair and balanced compared to CNN and MSNBC.
      • Mr. Potatoe 8 mths ago
        oh come on....admit it....you're a Fox "news" disciple...
    • Gary  •  9 mths ago
      Sara WHO?..CNN What? who's killing who and what do we care....the PRO-LIB extremists...OOPS! I mean the the Detroit Moslem Brotherhood will take over and the cost of Crack will Skyrocket!
    • Stewart  •  9 mths ago
      There are people who actually consider her a star based on her "reporting"? Lol, the libbies are even stupider than I had given them credit for. She's all dressed up like she's in real danger and in the background you see a little kid dancing around hamming it up and a couple of other guys strolling around, yet CNN tries to milk the canned drama for all it's worth.
      For those who believe she does real reporting of hard news facts, you really need to expand your horizons. Here's another news flash for you, the easter bunny,santa claus, tooth fairy, and Obama's economic recovery doesn't exist either.
    • Math_R_Us  •  9 mths ago
      Hot??? Very low standards at CNN.
    • hikingtigger  •  9 mths ago
      I'd do her...
    • PM  •  9 mths ago
      CNN? I go there when I wish to hear gentle fairy-tales. I go to MSNBC when I want to hear the complete gibberish.
    • PM  •  9 mths ago
      Turns her into a star? A star to both people who watch that network, I guess.
    • PM  •  9 mths ago
      CNN still exists? I guess some people still own landline phones too.
    • StevenD  •  9 mths ago
      Yes, let's never forget, the media IS the story.
    • relax already  •  9 mths ago
      saw her on cnn. one tough broad. had to wonder what she did to deserve that assignment. scary as he**.
    • Jack  •  9 mths ago
      Never heard of her? Who watches CNN these days anyways?
    • Blutarski  •  9 mths ago
      TONLOC.....I doubt you watch Fox News, so you have no idea where their correspondent is reporting from. Maybe they are wearing their helmets to look cool, but they appear to be near the same action, and I can assure you their camermen are catching all this on film. If the left leaning media sites want to make Ms. Sidner a star, that's fine with me as long as her reports depict the actual events with no personal agenda. Kudos to anyone who'd risk their life reporting from that hell hole.
    • Laycie  •  9 mths ago
      who?
    • marcus  •  9 mths ago
      This is one thing that sets apart fox news from real news, sara is a "hot star in the news community" fox just has hot looking stars and nothing else.i mean how many blondes does it take to change a light bulb at fox news?
    • dwighty  •  9 mths ago
      she is a weird and your obama is weid too.
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