You are there

Watching Al Jazeera English in my office, the Egyptian crowd more furious than ever that M won't step down, I'm reminded of the old TV show hosted by Walter Conkite, You Are There, which covered historical events in the same manner that history gets covered live today, and who would have known then how predictive this kind of coverage was? I loved that show. It seemed so real. And now, when real is real, it seems a tad surreal. Fascinating.