A leaflet distributed outside Al Jazeera's offices in Cairo, reading "the lies and the other lies" -- a play on the station's slogan, "the opinion and the other opinion."
Egypt's Media War Is Almost As Nasty As The One In The Streets -- Passport/Foreign Policy
CAIRO — As the Cairo press corps gathered for a press conference with a spokesman for the Egyptian military, some journalists reserved their harshest criticism for one of their own. Before the beginning of the event, which was intended to shed light on this morning's violence, members of the press chanted for the removal of an Al Jazeera reporter. As the reporter left amid cheers from the crowd, the military spokesman assured the audience that he supported freedom of the press and that "Egypt is a country of freedom and democracy."
It wasn't the first obstacle faced by Al Jazeera, which is accused by foes of deposed President Mohamed Morsy of being too sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood. Al Jazeera English correspondent Sherine Tadros tweeted pictures of two leaflets being handed out near the bureau's office in Cairo. "A bullet may kill a man, but a lying camera kills a nation," reads one of leaflets.
Read more ....
My Comment: For this blog I do not discriminate when it comes to posting links from the many news outlets that are now covering the Egyptian crisis. And while I personally prefer the British press .... coverage from Canadian/Australian/and Asian news outlets and their news correspondents on this crisis have been top notch. I have been disappointed in the Arab press, the Israeli press, and in the U.S. coverage.
No comments:
Post a Comment