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Essay / Corrupt Media in Egypt - 882
After the January 25 revolution in Egypt, media began to be the backbone of Egypt's political and social lifestyle. The media shapes the people's opinion towards a certain candidate, spreads against an ideology or a movement. Before the presidential election in Egypt, each political party began to open its own television channels, broadcasting their own agendas and thoughts on certain issues and problems that Egyptians were facing at the time. For example, a writer named Abdel Moneim says: “In 1997 when the Egyptian Radio and Television Union asked me to host a show called Behind Events. I agreed on one condition: I would act with complete independence,” meaning that being independent was a very difficult task and demand. Example number one, the former regime party "the National Democratic Party" of which Mubarak was also the party president, the party used national television, which has more than twenty channels, to propagate the idea that Mubarak is innocent and that he is the best president Egypt has ever had. The old regime's media began to claim that the protesters were being paid by other countries to break the structure of Egyptian political stability. The media also claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood party was responsible for everything that happened on the streets of Egypt. By saying this, the media wanted to give the image that Al-Qaeda is responsible for the so-called Islamic agenda, which in reality has nothing to do with the Islamic religion. During the revolution, Mubarak's media used programs such as Photoshop, film editors and even they broadcast from places very far from the zero zone "Tahrir Square", because simply the Egyptian nation... ... middle of paper... ..against communism, and played a very important role in the Iraq War, he has sometimes formed ideas that are morally, ethically, and downright wrong. So the media is actually the backbone of a nation; if they are corrupt, the entire nation is corrupt. Of course, this era has the highest rate of corruption in the media, and Egypt is only a small part of the world that lives in this era and in this mess of things, of which the media is one of these things. , Khalid. “Mubarak’s Media.” Mubarak's media. Gate Stone Institute, September 21, 2010. Web. February 17, 2014. Lynch, Sarah. “Will Egypt remain soft on Al-Sisi in the long term?” The United States Today. Gannett, October 29, 2013. Web. February 17, 2014. Said, Abdel Moneim. "Media and crisis in Egypt - Opinion - Ahram Online." Media and crisis in Egypt - Opinion - Ahram Online. English Ahram, December 13, 2012. Web. February 14. 2014.