24 hours cable news channels such as the BBC or CNN have been accused by several governments of sensationalising thier news coverge in order to satisfy their nees hungry audience. During he Red Shirt crisis in Thailand, many expatriates wrote letters to The Bangkok Post blaming CNN and BBC for biased reporting in favour of the Red shirt cause. more recently, Colonel Gadaffi in Libya has blamed the cable channels for creating a false impression of the problems in his country. He claimed that rether than being a poppular uprising, the problems were caused by youths who had been drugged by AL Qaeda.