Tag: msm
When reporting becomes activism
Al-Jazeera English website interviews Philip Rizk, Khaled Hamza and me on media and activism in Egypt.
I’ll never get tired of repeating this: In a dictatorship, independent journalism by default becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
A paranoid regime
I got this message from a BBC source:
A team from BBC Arabic was in Cairo to record a big prog about elections, with audience and invited parliamentary candidates, including MB of course. They agreed with a local video company, booked studio and in the last minute .. guess what? The company got a phone call , and the whole thing was canceled on spurious grounds of course. now they are coming home empty-handed.
If any further evidence was needed for the govt growing paranoia.