The Egyptian edition of the Daily Star has edited a picture of a Kefaya demonstrator in its 19 December print issue, that showed on the frontpage.
The newspaper, it seems, carefully blurred the anti-Mubarak writings on the Kefaya demonstrator’s poster.
The Daily Star Egypt has to present an explanation for this, or just merge their company with Rosa el-Youssef seeing their level of professionalism is increasingly becoming the same.
Hang on, Hoss, we still don’t know who censored the pic. Maybe someone from DSE could write in to provide more details?
Ya Hossam!
I wrote the piece and I can ASSURE you that it wasn’t The Daily Star itself that censored the picture, but the dear printer. If we would have known that the paper would come back from the printer in the morning with a photo like that on the front page, we would have obviously done our best to stop Big Bros’ quiet efforts to censor it. We wouldn’t ever publish a photo like that deliberately. Thus, we are not “totally unethical and unprofessional”.
If Big Bro was the one who censored it, and DSE editors were not involved, then the “professional” thing to do was not to run the pic in the first place.. or give your readers an explaination on the following day why was the frontpage was distorted and altered like that! That’s the least you could have done if it was the “Mubarak-friendly printer” not the editors..
In Tunisia we do better : we don’t authorize the newspaper at all. Thus we are quiet.
And internet is wonderful, beacause we can’t touch the photo. Baut we can do better : censorship.