This page brings together all the stories on Egypt that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

Articles 1 to 5 of 5 (with the most recent first)

The New Global Oppression
With world power in the hands of a few, the global media stifle culture, dissent and freedom to ensure that the Third World remains behind. Dr. Nawal el Saadawi warns of the "new colonialism."
From The Media Channel, 25 October 2000.
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Arab Broadcast Coups
"Opposite Direction," a kind of "Crossfire" in Arabic, is the vanguard show on Egypt's irreverent Jazeera TV. According to David Hirt, a challenger to the stream of Egyptian soaps has arrived.
From Le Monde Diplomatique, 1 August 2000.
> also about: Cultural Impacts, Freedom of Expression Television

Closing Windows On Women
A year and a half ago an Egyptian government edict on rape gave the media a rare chance to examine the country's obsession with virginity. The debate that followed, says Mariz Todros, now resembles a missed opportunity.
From World Assoc. for Christian Comm., 20 March 2000.
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Black Boxes, Hidden Biases
The anxious quest for the missing "black box," the surreal sight of wreckage reassembled in the shape of the original plane: plane-crash investigations cast a powerful spell on the media and the news-consuming public alike. Too often, though, coverage of such disasters focuses exclusively on their cause(s) and emotional aftershocks, blind to the cultural politics of such events. Coverage of the in...
From News Watch Project, Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, 22 December 1999.
> also about: United States, Cultural Impacts News Coverage

Network News Fascination With EgyptAir Crash Continues
U.S. TV networks continued to be obsessed, last week, with the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990. The story has led the networks on 10 of 13 days since the plane went down, although there are few developments. A Tyndall Report survey shows that EgyptAir consumed eight times as much network time as Congress' passage of the federal budget and three times as many minutes as the next most covered story, th...
From Tyndall Report, 22 November 1999.
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This page brings together all the stories on Egypt that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.

Articles 1 to 5 of 5 (with the most recent first)