The media in Egypt .. anticipation and confusion in the coverage of demonstrations

Abdullah Hamed-Cairo

The Egyptian media's handling of demonstrations in Cairo and Egyptian governorates since Friday evening has varied between complete disregard and careful handling.

Intelligence-owned channel DMC continued to broadcast enthusiastic songs by Emirati singer Hussein al-Jasmi during demonstrations in Tahrir Square in central Cairo and surrounding areas.

It seems that those in charge of the media - many of whom belonged to the Mubarak regime - learned the lesson of the January 25, 2011 revolution and did not return to photograph the Nile instead of the fields of protest, so wait until the field was forcibly dismantled and photographed.

The same was done by CBC, which ignored the demonstrations until midnight and expelled the demonstrators. Meanwhile, it broadcast videos of singers and artists affirming their loyalty to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

Later, the channel broadcast a live broadcast from the square confirms that it is free and smooth traffic for the pedestrians and cars. .

According to the media in such cases, he should have used the views of citizens to confirm their point of view, but he ignored them and the director tried to portray other angles away from them.

When the number around the broadcaster increased, a policeman drove them away from the camera.

The broadcaster explained the demonstrations that there were "biasers" who distorted videos in which fans celebrated the victory of their national team, and installed voices with "political" demands.

Shy confession
Broadcasting close to the authority, Amr Adib, continued to broadcast coverage of the Saudi National Day and MBC channel celebrations, and then to the success of the police in the return of a kidnapped child in one of the governorates of Upper Egypt.

After the break, Adib said in his program that there were already limited demonstrations and gatherings around the square and some governorates, accusing the Brotherhood of trying to ride the celebrations of Al-Ahli fans and show them as demonstrations against the regime.

Adeeb said that he appeared to be somewhat disturbed and abandoned his stark and confident play that the field is open and the movement is usual in it, and the metro did not close, welcoming the demonstrations, but after the "stability of the country," noting that the channels of "enemies" - meaning opposition channels abroad - will manipulate videos The simple event swelled.

Adib said he had nothing to hide and was not afraid to talk about, stressing that he "deals with the Egyptian issue with live images and not recorded or fabricated as do the island and its sisters," he said.

Al-Mehwar Channel has been broadcasting recorded programs about the regime's achievements by focusing on the new city of El-Alamein, where the high spending on its construction costs angered many.

The new city of El Alamein is one of the cities where the artist and businessman Mohammed Ali criticized the way of its creation and the enormous extravagance and allocated only to the super-rich.

Al-Nahar channel completely ignored the events as it watched the Arab satellite festival, as did the Egyptian television channels (Maspero), which was devoid of any reference to the events, and broadcast only regular entertainment and social programs and old films.

Charges
Newspapers owned and controlled by the Authority focused on an almost unified letter that "the Brotherhood shows fabricated videos and publishes clips dating back to 2011 as new."

The comments at the bottom of the news were ridiculous responses to the news published in the newspapers of the seventh day and the Constitution, where readers of the press sites that the chants demand the departure of Sisi, who did not hold any political position in 2011.

Media specialists said that the delay in coverage is due to the waiting of these media instructions and the text to be told to the public for fear of saying what angers those responsible for the media order of officers.