Egypt - Major news organzation harassed for not conveying government propaganda

[sharon sanders]

Suppression of the media is blatant and is being blamed for the democracy movement in Egypt. Alzajeera reporters have been arrested 2 times in the last week. Alzajeera is a news organization based in the Middle East.

Apparently disagreement with the government is not allowed.

The implications for us are the reports by the state regarding specifically bird flu and swine flu infections. With the media manipulation that has been shown in both print and televised media, we no longer believe any announcement by the current Egyptian government regarding any disease status. The government turned off the internet to the entire country of Egypt for 5 days to prevent the transmission of information. There are reports that this action cost Egypt 90 million dollars in lost business and delays. Obviously the suppression of information is worth a great deal to the current government.

The question we now ask - How much of the data released regarding disease information is valid? What are we not being told? What are the true numbers of infections?

FluTrackers is a strong supporter of freedom of expression - whether it is in support of current government regimes, or not.


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Al Jazeera logo put together to overthrow Egypt on the chest of the news business

الجمعة، 4 فبراير 2011 - 10:52​

Friday, February 4, 2011 - 10:52

الشعار الذى وضعته الجزيرة " معًا لإسقاط مصر"​

Slogan developed by the island "together to overthrow Egypt"

كتب محمد فهيم​

Mohamed Fahim

And put Al-Jazeera logo on the chest of its news titled "Together for the drop of Egypt", after some time been raising this slogan remained empty and then place the site after that to change this logo and place an ad placed on your mobile service on the island.

This is an act of impropriety of the island and insult all the people of Egypt and was on the island to provide an explanation for this disgraceful act, or to apologize to the Egyptian people that this inadvertent error.

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The deployment of the island site news site after the publication of the seventh day of this news Breifid Pettmkn Pirates dawn today to penetrate the section on page ads at the site of the island to distort the coverage of Al Jazeera network of current events in Egypt.​

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[sharon sanders]

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nolanjazeera Dan Nolan



Sadly i'm catchin plane out of cairo today. Threats to us been a bit too much. Need to spend some time with family & hope to return soon

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[sharon sanders]

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Liberation demonstrators accuse the Egyptian media distorting the revolution

الجمعة، 4 فبراير 2011 - 13:45​

Friday, February 4, 2011 - 13:45

تظاهرات يوم الرحيل​

Demonstrations on leave

كتب محمود يسن​

Mahmoud wrote enacted
Face of the demonstrators in Tahrir Square and the stern and blamed the media because of the distortion of the Egyptian revolution and try to describe Balmedfoap pay and charged with corruption and employment.

The demonstrators, who ate that food since the outbreak of the revolution does not exceed the only meal of beans and falafel attended by colleagues from nearby restaurants downtown.



The demonstrators refused to talk with any media, government response to the deliberate distortion, and be content to speak of some satellite channels that convey what is happening with impartiality, in addition to the newspaper on the seventh day and the sunrise and Egypt today and the delegation, as demonstrators raised banners high at the entrance to Bridge Kasr El Nil condemns the Egyptian media and the distorted image, which they presented to the Egyptian people.


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Egypt urged to curtail attacks on journalists

Al-Jazeera Cairo offices burned, website hacked

Last Updated: Friday, February 4, 2011 | 9:42 AM ET

The Associated Press

The United Nations top human rights official and a chorus of European nations on Friday condemned attacks on reporters covering pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt, while TV station Al-Jazeera announced its offices had been stormed and burned and its website hacked.

The Qatar-based satellite station ? widely watched in the Middle East ? portrayed Friday's attack as an attempt by Egypt's regime or its supporters to hinder Al-Jazeera's coverage of the uprising in Egypt. It said the office was burned along with the equipment inside it.

Last week, Egyptian authorities closed Al-Jazeera's Cairo office, revoked the credentials of Al-Jazeera reporters and detained several of them for various periods.

Al-Jazeera also said a banner advertisement on its Arabic-language site was taken down for more than two hours early Friday and replaced with a slogan reading "Together for the Collapse of Egypt" which linked to a page criticizing the network.

"Our website has been under relentless attack since the onset of the uprisings in Egypt," a statement from Al-Jazeera said.

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http://www.cbc.ca/m/rich/world/story/2011/02/04/egypt-journalists-attacks.html