Whether it’s owned by the state, or “independent” businessmen, Egypt’s front page headlines are all coined identically by the army’s Department of Morale Affairs.
Tag: sensationalist media
‘War on infidels’
It was a pile of trash already, but it’s even getting worse since Yasser Rizk became the CEO of Al-Akbar, Egypt’s second largest state-owned newspaper.
Just to give you a sample, above is Al-Akhbar’s front page on 28 March, breaking the news about the Egyptian army’s heroic efforts to “abort a terror strike” on a security check point in Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid’s area, as the “Apaches bomb a Houthi cell in Rafah that includes Palestinians and Iranians!”
And today’s front page runs a headline announcing the “martyrdom of 15 [Egyptian army] fighters and the liquidation of 27 infidels!”
‘Elephant jockeys and cannibals’
The deputy head of the Egyptian Football Federation, Hassan Farid, regards Africans as “elephant jockeys and cannibals,” and Egypt’s most prominent sports news website doesn’t mind at all posting those racist statements without any sort of commentary.
Such anti-African racism is rampant in Egyptian media.
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— عمو حسام (@3arabawy) August 28, 2014