LIBYAN rebels have launched their first home grown satellite TV station, trying to counter the regime’s powerful media machine, which churns out Muammar Gaddafi’s message, depicts the opposition as terrorists and drums up patriotic fervour by beaming images of burning buildings hit by NATO strikes.

Libya’s rebels have launched their first homegrown satellite TV station, trying to counter the regime’s powerful media machine, which churns out Muammar Gaddafi’s message, depicts the opposition as terrorists and drums up patriotic fervour by beaming images of burning buildings hit by Nato strikes.