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Media crackdown in Egypt -8 June 08

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Egypt continues to be rocked by food riots but most people won't see anything about it on national television. TV networks are being more careful about what they report as a new charter governing Arab media comes into effect. One TV boss is already awaiting trial after his channel aired pictures of food riots earlier this year. Al Jazeera's Amr Khaky reports from Cairo.

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  • Freedom of the press is not allowed in much of the M.E. quite simply because their respective governments lack the legitimacy to rule over their state.

    Mubarak and the Hashemites would have been long gone were it not for their iron rule with the help of the US.

  • How absurd -the news stations cannot report news...mmmmm it is a world wide phenomena...across ALL nations...mmm wat ARE they trying to hide/stop. WOW ppl if we dont do somthing soon this world we hav known is gone -well wats left of it - the remnants!!!

    REVOLUTION. LETS GET RID OF ALL GOVERNMENTS

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  • @PauloGVieira Well, the US won't be coming to this party. It's not in US interests to remove this particular corrupt dictatorship.

  • some times the social problems takes the place of political problems but that dosnt mean there crackdown or any of that stuff that exagurating

  • Arabs!...news will come out no-matter what unhappy regime trying to stop.

    Arab are evolving and learning in wide world of information ,so absolute rule of the past is slowly dieing-out...arabs!...arab.

  • أوسخ فناة قناة الجزيرة ( المعرصة )

  • O NOT READ THIS IF YOU DONT WANT TO FOLLOW IT AND MAKE MANY PEOPLE MAD AT YOU!!!

    1. put your finger on your nose

    2. hold your breath for 5 seconds

    3. say the name of your love

    4. that person will ask you out on the next Friday

    5. you will have the best day tomorrow

    6. if you don't copy and paste to 2 other videos you will have bad luck and die in 2 days

  • كسم قناة الجزيرة ميت مرة يامعرصين

  • If I am wrong and know nothing about history then why dont you argue against me with facts.

  • THe media is a tool of the central bankers and thier puppet governments they have one comon enemy the debt slaes, yes the people are the enemy of the Dictators who have enslaved the world convincing us to acpt tax as patriotic instead of tax is theft, immmoral against man and god.

  • You clearly don't know your History Paulo so go fuck yourself. thanks.

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