The Revolution will NOT be Televised...!!!
Posted on 02/03/2011 2:12:29 PM PST by lbryce
CAIRO — Security forces and gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists at their offices and in the hotels where many had taken refuge on Thursday in a widespread and overt campaign of intimidation aimed at suppressing reports from the capital.
By evening, it appeared that none of the major broadcasters were able to provide live footage of Tahrir Square, the epicenter of antigovernment protests. Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya television networks said their journalists had been hounded from the street and from the vantage points above the square where cameras had been placed, and both CNN and BBC appeared to be relying only on taped footage of the square. Jon Williams of the BBC said via Twitter that Egyptian security had seized the news agency’s equipment from the Cairo Hilton “in an attempt to stop us broadcasting.”
The Egyptian state news agency had earlier asked foreign reporters and crews to move out of all the hotels near the square.
The Committee to Protect Journalists was investigating at least two dozen cases of reporters being detained. According to the group, the government told the journalists that they were not being arrested, but rather were being taken into “protective custody.”
Some journalists were attacked so viciously that they required hospitalization. The Fox News Channel said Thursday that two employees, correspondent Greg Palkot and cameraman Olaf Wiig, had been “severely beaten” on Wednesday. The two men spent a night in the hospital and were released Thursday, but had yet to appear on television.
A reporter for Al Arabiya was beaten by a group of pro-Mubarak demonstrators on Wednesday. His injuries were significant enough that he remains hospitalized, though his condition is not critical, Nakhle El Hage, director of news for the network said.
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Reversible satin jackets.
The MSM has consciously decided to be players rather than observers, and the rule of unintended consequences applies.
“”gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists””
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Let’s see now. If I were the Muslim Brotherhood and I wanted USA to write bad stories about Mubarek, what better way than to have a bunch of my Muslim Brotherhood thugs chant pro-Murbarek slogans as they hunt down Western MSM Journalists.
Could it be that simple?
Well, at least Andy Cooper got punched 10 times.
It sounds like all they are doing is turning the square into a Closed Military Zone. They told these creeps to get out. They didn’t. They suffer the consequences. The best part is that they must be getting ready to go tribal on the slams in the square. That’s A Good Thing.
I don’t feel sorry for the ‘media’. Don’t want ;your head cut off, don’t go where they cut your head off..
Oh, yeah, I’m sure they’ll soon be saying that granny and grandpa in their folding chairs at the tea party rally are the moral equivalent of Mubarak’s plainclothes police. All I want to see is... More Camel!
The Revolution will NOT be Televised...!!!
If you sit in the barber chair long enough you shouldn’t be surprised when you get a haircut.
It don’t take a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.
If you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.
If you mess with the bull you likely to get the horns.
Some days chicken, some days feathers.
“Rule One: No touching of the hair or face.
And that’s it! Now let’s do this!”
- ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY
Send more journalists!
tooo funny!!! their first real taste of reality, and it tastes like blood...
What’s a “rights worker”? Whose rights are they working for? Who is paying them to work? Whose side are they on?
Since the NYT is concerned, they must be islamo-leftists.
Journalism school should have a 1/2 hour course titled “The Real, Dangerous, World”.
Reminds me of the welcoming crowd scene in “Mars Attacks”...
Yup, and, right after walking through the door the unsuspecting moron leftist ‘journalist’ should be set upon by three thugs and beaten until they realize they’re not impervious to evil in the world by being ‘journalists’.
It would not surprise me if these reporters were beat up by pro government supporters. These same people most likely watched as these reporters pandered to the terrorist who are attacking Israel. If they reported the truth instead of what the terrorist wanted they probably wouldn’t get beat up. I have no doubt the pro government people see this as just more lies by the news media in support of terrorism.
“I wonder if these gangs have jackets embroidered with “Pro-Government Supporter” on the back. In satin maybe?”
I kinda wondered the same thing. Seems that the ‘pro-government supporters’ who chased Katie Couric to her car were shouting that they hated Americans....odd for a government that has been at least cordial with the US for 30 years.
And those ‘Pro Democracy Demonstrators” sure have alot of photos with a star of David on Mubarak’s face...weird.
...and there’s those signs with Mubarak=USA....
I’m not quite computing the “Pro-Democracy” Muslim Brotherhood, and the unlikely “Only pro-government forces are beating us up” message is downright silly.
I think it's safe to assume that unless they're in uniform they're part of the Muslim Brotherhood's rent a mob.
How do the MSM journalists know WHO is beating them up or hunting them? Do these folks give out business cards or what?
Questions: What if things really go south and the mob starts killing the MSM journalists? What then? Will the MSN figure it out?
Priceless!
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