From WNYKYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week. I'm Bob Garfield.

After Tunisia, after Egypt, calls for change have spread across North Africa and the Middle East.

Holding anti-government signs and chanting out loud, Algeria, free and democratic.

... soldiers in the southern port of Aden. If confirmed, it will bring the total number of known deaths in the Yemeni uprising to 12.

The demonstrators are calling for the overthrow of President Ali Abdullah Salah,

who's been in power for 32 years.

Bahrain is in crisis.

Tonight, protesters tried to march to the city center again. This was the response.

The police and the army opened fire, using tear gas and bullets.

Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, and remarkably Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi has kept his grip on power for more

than 40 years. When February 15th, protests erupted in the Libyan city of Benghazi, and news organizations

were faced with covering a country where the information blackout was near total. With virtually

no foreign reporters on the ground until weeks' end,

the world relied on the testimony of Libyan eyewitnesses,

reporting by cell phone, by Twitter, and by all available means,

often at grave personal risk.

The result was a tapestry of violence and resolve, a tapestry recognizable and stirring,

but each stitch of which was uncorroborated and unconfirmed.

Some witnesses say Gaddafi's regime has lost the eastern city of Misrata. CNN's unable to

independently confirm that. A day of deadly protest, journalists not allowed in, but these pictures provided by people risking their lives

and finding ways around a government information blackout.

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