Middle East Crisis: Notes

> Update: 3:40pm: CNN Pipeline is letting viewers watch multiple perspectives of the situation, with live feeds of Al-Arabiya and Israeli TV…

> Update: 3:35pm: An e-mailer says GMA was the only morning show with a correspondent in Beirut this morning…

> FNC’s David Lee Miller was reporting via videophone from Gaza when a shot was heard nearby. The crew took cover in their vehicle and file dramatic live reports. YouTube has the video; the shot comes around 1:55…

> NBC’s Richard Engel, the Middle East bureau chief, is driving to Beirut. “Since flying into Amman, we’ve driven across Jordan, now we’re trying to cross the border into Syria so we can drive to Lebanon, cross the border there, and drive into Beirut —- all in time for Nightly News tonight,” he writes on MSNBC.com…

> FNC was first with the news of Israeli’s bombing of the Beirut airport Wednesday night. ABC’s Nightline was second (beating CNN) with a live report from David Wright, who had just landed at the airport hours earlier…

> Early this morning, an e-mailer said: “I think it’s safe to say that editorial decision-making at CNN/US has reached a new low; they pulled out of 360 for a CNNI breaking news update at 1am ET — but despite CNNI anchor Max Foster’s promise of more updates on the Israel/Lebanon situation ‘after the break’ at 1:15am, CNN/US went back to keeping me informed about polygamists lurking around every corner. Truly pathetic.”

> CNN.com is using a special report layout titled “ACTS OF WAR…”

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