Libyan uprising: Keyboard screen = Airplane cannon

The situation in Libya is nearing the end, and no one will say that the Libyan uprising, which began February 17, was "pushed" by the new media. NATO aircraft and the Benghazi resistance of the real gun, the Libyan regime is the main reason for banner. Without military force, the new and old media alone cannot imagine Gaddafi's downfall.　　However, without the new and old media, the political views of different rebel forces can not be assembled, and Europe, America, the United Nations, the Arab League, the African Union can not form the current overwhelming support for the rebels, so objectively speaking, aircraft cannons and keyboard screens are very important. Gaddafi's will, strong control of the regime, he belongs to the old-school politicians, natural to the new media does not feel, but the control of television is very thorough. After losing control of the capital Tripoli, he has been speaking to the Syrian Al-ouruba satellite television station, which is in charge of his son Saif al-Islam.　　The rebels also attach great importance to the television media, after the attack on the television station, August 25 immediately used the former Gaddafi speech positions of state television broadcast the Rebel voice. About 6.2 million of Libya's population, according to the World Bank's statistics, 94% families have televisions, only 5.4% of people can access the Internet, the Twitter users, only 60,000 people. Gaddafi was wary of the new media, the February square demonstrations began shortly after the internet was cut off, until the Rebels scored Tripoli after the recovery.　　During the six months of the uprising, Gaddafi was on television to publicize and maintain his rule in western Libya. Keyboard screen = Airplane cannon However, the new media has played an extremely important role in Gaddafi's demise. This six months, the new media on the Libyan news, basically by the Benghazi forces, in the press (satellite Internet) and the global concern about the situation in Libya, Gaddafi and the capital of the people, completely in the new media lost voice. Today, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly capable of setting up traditional media agendas, which is tantamount to handing international opinion to the rebels.　　Netizens from various countries, through the Twitter, Facebook, the Chinese netizens through Weibo, Renren, see most of the news about the brutal repression of Gaddafi, rebel winning, which is tantamount to the global public opinion on their respective governments, encourage the anti-card countries to send troops and pressure on the card, to curb the sympathy of the country to give aid. The use of the media by the Benghazi forces is also extremely subtle, keep releasing the new Libyan government will be based on the extent of support to the rebels to reconsider the Gaddafi era contract news, through the traditional media and new media, affected countries, especially the opposition to the views of the country, have issued a statement to support the new government. Of course, this is only propaganda skills, from the new Iraqi government on the oil contract attitude can be seen, the new government is necessarily the interests of the United States, the largest foreign oil companies in Iraq is not the initiator of the war, the U.S., but at that time a neutral China.　　But this kind of propaganda skill, also certainly obtains the new government to obtain the very fast international recognition. August 22, at the capital Tripoli Rixos HotelNational journalists were limited by Gaddafi militants outside the event, but also staged a wonderful national journalists, the new and old media cooperation report news. CNN war correspondent Mathew Chance is extremely interesting, the militants were limited to the hotel and power off water, because the TV signal can not be transmitted, so constantly send Twitter report the situation, and also by the way grumble. Instead of showing the heroism of a traditional war journalist on Twitter, he complained that the hotel had completely failed to meet five-star standards and asked around how to get home by boat. Such an ordinary character, but gained the popularity of netizens, and he has become the world to understand this event, one of the main window. It is worth mentioning that China Central Television's Albanian journalist, Feng, has passed a video of internet coverage in a hotel and has been quoted by CNN's ireport, widely circulated on Twitter, Facebook and Weibo.　　Regardless of the intentions of Gaddafi militants, this matter because of the spread of new media, is undoubtedly interpreted as "kidnapping journalists", naturally become the eyes of the world audience Gaddafi's new guilt. Compared to the traditional media, the new media the decentralization of the agenda to every citizen also strengthens the weight of the sources and opinion leaders in the flow of information, and this decentralized agenda is almost in tune with the public-gathering mechanism of democratic societies, and therefore has a greater influence on the decisions of the Governments of democratic countries. Benghazi rebel itself mixed up, some traditional media also reported its own crisis, but the new media Benghazi rebel performance is almost on the rise, this can not help but say that Gaddafi's network and Benghazi use of the media, especially the new media, so that the rebels occupy the control of international public opinion is an excellent tool.