We were very grateful to be able to watch history happen today. We were a little annoyed, though, that the only channel we could find with live coverage of the inauguration was Al Jazeera (English version). It was only interesting for about 10 seconds to hear their slant on everything, and they didn’t feed in any of the noise of the crowd cheering, etc., which really gave their coverage a cold feeling. Fortunately, we found it later on Botswana TV (which was playing the MSNBC feed), though they blanked out on us a few times—like right when Obama was about to enter the stage area.

In related news, some of my fellow UNC photojournalists are in D.C. covering the event with GPS-enabled cameras as part of the Washington Post’s multimedia coverage called TimeSpace. I’ve embedded the map below where you can view photos and video from various places and times, or you can visit the Post page.

Filed under: General by Nathan on January 20th, 2009. Tags: election, Obama | 1 Comment