Egypt’s
media
openly
embrace
political
bias
Political
reports
that
are
coming
from
Egypt
clearly
lack
objectivity,
with
the
state
media
supporting
the
military,
and
private
outlets
taking
the
opposite
path.
The
German
Council
program
on
Foreign
Relations,
EU-?Middle
East
Forum’s
head
Sarah
Hartmann,
describes
the
Egyptians
present
media
condition
as
“a
media
war.”
She
proclaims
that
it
is
“extremely difficult to tell what is
really happening from all those different reports and figures,” after
following them closely. Following the ousting of former President,
Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army, all the reports are either
biased completely for or against the military. Most of Egypt’s mass
media has been biased to the military, and some of the few
journalists who have biased against have been put under enormous
pressures, and some even arrested.
A history of biased reporting
Hamadi
El-?Aouni,
a
political
scientist
says
that
"Following the revolution in
1954, the Egyptian state under President Gamal Abdel Nasser
decided that the media should play a strategic role," so there has
been a habit by the government in influencing the media and its
reports. The Doha Center for Media freedom in Egypt gives a lot of
examples for this, stating that many Egyptian newspapers focused
on foreign voters, during the 2012 presidential elections. This
caused a spotlight on small groups opposing Morsi in foreign
countries, whilst completely ignoring big groups of existing
supporters. This set a twisted image to the events in Egypt, on top
of adding specific images and formulations to purposely cover up
facts, which all resulted in manipulated and misleading reports.