Just the other day I was having a discussion with a friend of a mine and we mentioned that the only way for any regime to stay clean and uncorrupted is knowing that its being closely monitored, installing enough controls on it to make sure that corruption would be immediately spotted and handled, and that mass media is the main control of any successful regime around the world, he then mentioned something about how the independent Egyptian channels are assuming that role these days and how they were in large part responsible for the fall of the regime and the events that lead to jan25, to which I responded that to-date we've never had truly independent channels, the regime made sure that it was impossible for one to surface, the approval system made sure that the only way for you to broadcast anything is by going through state security first and making sure that you are complying with there rules and will always be under their control. Their main purpose was providing the masses with a mean to vent through, this venting made sure that people weren't feeling bad enough to move still none of that venting resulted in anything serious, so it was all about making sure that people were too busy talking to take any action, further more these shows/channels were used to control the masses to think whatever the regime wants them to think, they were even being used to bash public figures that they don't like.
Throughout the last 2 decades the regime made sure that only the corrupt and decadent would be successful, and to own your own channel you must be filthy rich. In short the only way for you to start an independent TV channel is to be accepted and approved by the government, knowing that they'll loose everything they have if their channels misbehave the make sure that they never cross these red lines drawn to them by the government furthermore whenever they are asked to show their loyalty by pushing a certain idea they do. From day one of the revolution you could tell that they were playing what the government wanted them to say, the only difference form one channel to another is how good they were at masking their intentions. The fact is These channel's owners are an integral part of the regime the reason they exist and why they amounted such huge fortunes was their loyalty and if the regime falls, most of them will be exposed or at least they'll be playing in a leveled field and they don't that, this fact didn't change over night because of the revolution.
The point I'm making here is that these channels are owned by corrupt decadent men who were produced by the regime and are an integral part of it, they have full control over the what gets played and what doesn't and they'd defend what ever is left from the regime by their lives, I think expecting these channels to be fair and provide a balanced coverage of whats going on is nothing more than a pipe dream that can't be realized, and unless we manage to launch a publicly owned channel that's being managed by some kind of independent board the only proper coverage we can get is Twitter and Social media.
Throughout the last 2 decades the regime made sure that only the corrupt and decadent would be successful, and to own your own channel you must be filthy rich. In short the only way for you to start an independent TV channel is to be accepted and approved by the government, knowing that they'll loose everything they have if their channels misbehave the make sure that they never cross these red lines drawn to them by the government furthermore whenever they are asked to show their loyalty by pushing a certain idea they do. From day one of the revolution you could tell that they were playing what the government wanted them to say, the only difference form one channel to another is how good they were at masking their intentions. The fact is These channel's owners are an integral part of the regime the reason they exist and why they amounted such huge fortunes was their loyalty and if the regime falls, most of them will be exposed or at least they'll be playing in a leveled field and they don't that, this fact didn't change over night because of the revolution.
The point I'm making here is that these channels are owned by corrupt decadent men who were produced by the regime and are an integral part of it, they have full control over the what gets played and what doesn't and they'd defend what ever is left from the regime by their lives, I think expecting these channels to be fair and provide a balanced coverage of whats going on is nothing more than a pipe dream that can't be realized, and unless we manage to launch a publicly owned channel that's being managed by some kind of independent board the only proper coverage we can get is Twitter and Social media.
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