• The Fox News Channel (TopTV 405) just announced that correspondent Greg Palkot (pictured) and his cameraman Olaf Wiig were attacked and had to be taken to hospital.
• Yesterday RIGHT HERE I told you that Anderson Cooper of CNN International (DStv 401) was attacked and punched in the head 10 times. Today he tweeted that the vehicle he was in was attacked and the windows smashed.
• Al Jazeera (TopTV 401 / DStv 408) reports that three of its journalists were dragged out of their car on the road from the airport to central Cairo and were detained. A third Al Jazeera journalist is missing.
• The BBC (TopTV 400 / DStv 400) had some of its equipment seized in the Cairo Hilton hotel where the BBC is staying.
• Correspondet Tim Marshall of Sky News (DStv 402) also in Cairo, says that he was punched several times in the unrest gripping the city.
• TIME reports exclusively that South Africa's Lara Logan of The CBS Evening News (weekdays at 02:30 and 04:30 South African time on Sky News, DStv 402) has now been detained along with her news crew by the Egyptian police.
• Deadline reports that a NBC News crew of NBC Night News (weekdays at 01:30 South African time on CNBC Africa, DStv 410) got carjacked by a group of Egyptian men and threatened with beheading.
Several other TV journalists from TV channels not available in South Africa as well as print and wire news service journalists have also reportedly been attacked, assaulted, and had equipment confiscated as they're sending searing images and stories into the world about the tumultuous populist uprising in Egypt.
Programming note: Africa 360 this Saturday at 11:30 on the eNews Channel (DStv 403) will have comprehensive analysis on the political and social upheaval in Egypt.
