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There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying. I thought not only am I going to die, but it’s going to be just a torturous death that’s going to go on forever.
Lara Logan, CBS Correspondent, describing the assault she suffered while covering protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square. The interview will appear this Sunday on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
Emily Wax, Washington Post. On ‘60 Minutes,’ Logan describes assault in Cairo.
This week WNYC’s On the Media host Brook Gladstone traveled to Egypt for a fascinating look at post-revolution media evolution in that country.
Linked here is the first 12 minutes or so of an hour-long segment that explores Egypt’s state-run, independent and emerging social media players.
Andy Carvin Sits in a Bar
- Bartender: Who were those guys?
- Andy Carvin: Egyptian revolutionaries.
- Bartender: Wish I'd known. Would've given them shots of Cuervo on the house.
- FJP: Andy Carvin, NPR's Senior Strategist, hangs out in a bar. Carvin's been called a one man newswire as he tweets and retweets revolution in North Africa and the Middle East: http://bit.ly/gtM9z1
Egypt Sentences Blogger to 3 Years
Via the New York Times:
An Egyptian blogger was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for criticizing the military in what human rights advocates called one of the more alarming violations of freedom of expression since a popular uprising led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak two months ago
The blogger, Maikel Nabil, 26, had assailed the Egyptian armed forces for what he called its continuation of the corruption and anti-democratic practices of Mr. Mubarak. Mr. Nabil often quoted from reports by established human rights groups.
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Photo:One of the lorries set ablaze overnight in Tahrir Square
The health ministry says one person was killed and 71 injured after the army dispersed a protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday. Activists have been reporting a higher death toll.
Hundreds of protesters demanding that Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, be put on trial for alleged corruption, have retaken Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, hours after security forces attempted to disperse them, in a clash that killed at least one person.
By 7am (local time) on Saturday morning, army and central security troops appeared to have withdrawn, leaving the square to protesters who set vehicles on fire and began setting up barricades made of furniture and left-behind barbed wire.
“The number of protesters remaining in the square is swelling, as news [of the clashes] spreads through the city,” reported Mike Hanna, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Cairo.
Hundreds of army and security forces troops had stormed the square earlier, in an attempt to disperse the thousands of protesters.
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Photo:One of the lorries set ablaze overnight in Tahrir Square
The health ministry says one person was killed and 71 injured after the army dispersed a protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday. Activists have been reporting a higher death toll.
Hundreds of protesters demanding that Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, be put on trial for alleged corruption, have retaken Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, hours after security forces attempted to disperse them, in a clash that killed at least one person.
By 7am (local time) on Saturday morning, army and central security troops appeared to have withdrawn, leaving the square to protesters who set vehicles on fire and began setting up barricades made of furniture and left-behind barbed wire.
“The number of protesters remaining in the square is swelling, as news [of the clashes] spreads through the city,” reported Mike Hanna, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Cairo.
Hundreds of army and security forces troops had stormed the square earlier, in an attempt to disperse the thousands of protesters.
While the prominence of women in the revolutions has been moving, there is a psychology behind celebrating and glorifying women’s political activity when it is part of a popular push. In these times women are almost tokenised by men as the ultimate downtrodden victims, the sign that things are desperate, that even members of the fairer sex are leaving their hearths and taking to the streets. The perception isn’t that women are fighting for their own rights, but merely that they are underwriting the revolution by bringing their matronly dignity to the crowd like some mascot.
Three Big Pigs. The Story of Arab Democracy Revolts Told Angry Birds-Style.
Getty photographer John Moore discusses his six weeks covering protest and revolution in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya. Many of the images in the accompanying slide show will be familiar to those following the news.
“I’ve covered a lot of conflict over the years,” says Moore, who’s reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and other conflict areas, “but I’d say my days of combat coverage here in Libya were the most heavy of all.”
It's Hard to Report When Your Subject is Anonymous
Despite high profile activity such as Distributed Denial of Service attacks against Amazon, PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, the digital activist group Anonymous is notoriously difficult to report on.
Unlike traditional groups, there’s no clear leader or spokesperson.
Instead, Anonymous organizes like the Web it uses as its platform: as a series of weak and strong links, with a variety of hubs representing the group’s activities.
For example, over the past two months, Anonymous has claimed responsibility for digital attacks in support of pro-democracy movements against governmental agencies and resources in Egypt and Tunisia, and against Zimbabwe for its censorship of WikiLeaks documents.
Most recently, Anonymous exposed internal emails from the security firm HBGary Federal that demonstrate how it was about embark on a disinformation campaign against pro-union organizers in the United States.
Still, news organizations can’t quite put their finger on who they are, and why they do what they do.
Writes Gillian Terzis in The Altantic:
For the most part, the mainstream media remains befuddled by Anonymous, not knowing quite what to make of the group’s mélange of illegal activity, political motivations and sardonic sense of humor. Moreover, as the group does not visibly toil on any ideological coalface, media outlets have been tempted to portray Anonymous as a group of lonesome hackers with nebulous but shadowy intent. Mass rallies — like the ones in Wisconsin — make for an easy, linear media narrative. But electronic subterfuge and virtual activism are often depicted as a bloodless sport — the least compelling kind.
Or, as Chris Landers wrote a few years back:
Anonymous is a group, in the sense that a flock of birds is a group. How do you know they’re a group? Because they’re travelling in the same direction. At any given moment, more birds could join, leave, peel off in another direction entirely.
The world’s connected, part 304,378: Kashmiri cartoonist Malik Sajad sends this cartoon of unrest in the Middle East to Al Jazeera English.
If things are demonstrably untrue, should you continue with truthiness?
John Stewart interviews Anderson Cooper.
By way of background, an overview of the criticism leveled against Cooper for calling liars liars can be read here.
Via Al Jazeera:
Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation; geeks have taken on dictators; bloggers are dissidents; and social networks have become rallying forces for social justice…
…Joining Marwan Bishara to discuss these issues are: Carl Bernstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist; Amy Goodman, the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!; Professor Emily Bell, the director of digital journalism at Columbia University; Evgeny Morozov, the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom; Professor Clay Shirky, the author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.
Via Cyborgology, a roundup of social media news and analysis during the Egyptian protests:
Buried in all the rapidly unfolding events were numerous stories about social media and its role in the revolution. I think it may be useful to aggregate all these stories as we begin to analyze how important social media was (if at all) to the revolution – and, also, whether the revolution has significant implications for social media.
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