The Egyptian Crisis and the failure of journalism

[lost_aesthete]

Hi, I have been watching the unfolding street protests in Egypt with great interest. I have also been watching closely the reporting of this event with interest. It seems to me that journalism has become the simple representation of events. Journalism used to be about attempting to understand events in a deep way, as expressions of a political or

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[saithkar]

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The problem for the media and the general public in situations like this is that suddenly everyone has to become an overnight expert on a country who's history and politics they were totally ignorant of before in order to "discuss" or "report" on what is going on there. You see this same story over and over again every time trouble breaks out in somewhere like Ukraine, Thailand or Tunisia. It's not like the Israel/Palestine conflict where everyone knows the basic facts even if they can't bring themselves to push for the obvious solutions to the problem. So when you've got a huge hunger for news about a place people know next to nothing about, you're not going to get informed commentary based on a sound understanding of the political, historical and cultural origins of the current crisis, you're going to get moronic, good guys vs bad guys crap from uniformed reporters to an uniformed audience.

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[anonymous]

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