After the fall of the Tunisian regime in January 2011, the logical thing for any newspaper is to put that significant news on its front page with a full headline. However, the Egyptian state news is standing on its own as usual, instead of putting the news as a headline, they decided to Hosny Mubarak's achievements as a headline and say that he offered more than 10,000 new houses and more than 10,000 new jobs for the Egyptian people. As we all know that the headline is supposed to be for the more significant news that happened, and I don't think that anyone would think that Mubarak's achievements are more important that the falling of a corrupt regime.
The Egyptian state TV was not very different from their newspapers. All the world were watching what was happening during the Egyptian revolution, but they state TV didn't think that its worth watching. During the whole month of the revolution, the state TV didn't show once the scene in Tahrir square, instead they kept referring to the people there as "thugs", "foreigners" and "traitors". The lame attempt to twist the truth didn't affect the people and they kept on revolting.
Very graphic Video for Egyptian Police Brutality
Khaled Saeed is the Egyptian hero who was killed, because he didnt want the police to check his belongings which they always do and their motive is the emergency law which every Egyptian citizen complains about. When Khaled complained to the police for searching him, they took him to a dark alley and they started beating him up. When he passed out they took him away to see what happened to him, and when they found out that he was dead they fabricated a story that he was a drug addict and drug dealer and a lot of other lies. The picture shows Khaled before and after the beating. The video is a very graphic video that shows the police brutality when dealing with captured criminals, which the Egyptian people found very disturbing and decided to revolt against the whole regime.
9/11
Since September 11, 2001 The United States of America has been fighting a never ending fight against terrorism. The fight that you can never win, but you are the only loser for it. I personally believe that former president George Bush used the fight against terrorism to secure reelection for presidential campaign. Bush encouraged stereotyping by fighting Osama Bin Laden and picturing him and all his followers as Muslims with long beards. The capturing of Muslims with long beards for security reasons became famous in USA and people started believing that all Muslims are terrorists.
Black Ethiopian slaves
Color racism is very dominant in many countries. We can see media encouraging color racism by always portraying black people as drug dealers and trouble makers. It became almost a formality when you see a black guy in an movies, you immediately think that he will do something bad or he'll kill someone. The above picture shows a police officer hand-cuffing a black guy. Its a seen we have gotten used too from movies. While the video shows how black people were held as slaves and were sold for money. I believe that the media encouraged stereotyping black people as trouble makers, through movies and others.
