Friday, October 21, 2011

Media Freedom - Four Years Later

I realized today that I've been writing for Global Voices Online for 4 years. My first post there was in October 2007 and it was a curation of many incidents that were taking place in Egypt at that moment. But what really grabbed my attention was that the first part of it was about Mubarak's regime banning a number of newspapers [Ar] for publishing - what they called then - false information about Mubarak's health. Now they say we had a revolution and Mubarak is gone, but do you think much have changed since then!? Just yesterday, the Egyptian TV host Yosry Foudy decided not to air his program for an undetermined period [Ar], as he was going to host Alaa Al-Aswany to comment on the Supreme Council of Armed Forces members' appearance on TV the previous day, however there were pressures on him and rumours say the TV channel was ordered to host a pro-SCAF journalist there too to represent their own point of view!
You think much have changed in those four years!?


3 comments:

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Gabriela said...

I do think there have been changes, some changes at least.
It's curious: I've joined Global Voices as volunteer translator four years ago too.

Unknown said...

Nice Gabi, we are twin-GVers then. Miss you loads, waiting for next summit to meet :)