The Battle for Egypt - join in the debate
For 14 days, the world has watched as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have - and then battle it out - in a popular uprising against the .
Panorama's has been filming inside - in the main squares with the protest organisers and in the mean back streets where vigilantes and undercover police fight for control in a tense and terrifying struggle for power.
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At 7th Feb 2011, ±«Óătv Panorama wrote:Join in the debate on the Battle for Egypt. Please use this forum to leave a comment.
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At 7th Feb 2011, eg wrote:It's too easy to walk through the back streets of Cairo. The people of Cairo are sweet. The ±«Óătv needs to put more work into documentaries. That was a Cop Out!!
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At 9th Feb 2011, janacek1234 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 13th Feb 2011, investment8 wrote:Just watched it on iplayer. The program gave the impression that the Egyptian revolution, that now thank God has removed Hosni Mubarak, was all about economic hardship. This was a very important ingredient, but it was equally about the thirty year old so called emergency laws that allowed the Police to extort money and commit torture at will, a political system that was passing all the economic power in the country to the top 1000 families under the guide of free market reforms and most of all it was about the national pride and the dignity of the Egyptian people. Events have wrong footed this programme. Who could watch the massive highly restrained demonstrations in Egypt, followed by the jubilant celebrations on the 12th, and not understand that this was also about national pride and common humanity.
It was also Panorama with Jane Corbin who produced the pro Israeli government highly biased "Death In The Med" programme back in August 2010. The ±«Óătv response to complaints about this programme, was that it "carried out its analysis in a fair, impartial and balanced manner" and that it "simply allowed viewers to make up their own minds in their own time based on what they saw and heard." There is a deep problem with Panorama and it's attitude to Arab people. It is time they stopped covering stories in the Middle East, or had a change of personnel. I hope for the latter, as generally I think Panorama is a valuable part of the ±«Óătv’s output.
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At 18th Feb 2011, janacek1234 wrote:Is this investigative journalism. They send a reporter who has limited knowledge of the country or its people, with no research or respect, and no actual investigation. Jane Corbin just seems to rely on her “we are the ±«Óătv... we are the ±«Óătv” tag line, and more pathetically pretends to be the main hero of the story by constantly reminding us how much danger she is in, while the content of her narration becomes more meaningless and empty.
It is the same ridiculous patronizing attitude across all branches of ±«Óătv journalism, especially when it comes to the middle east, which seems to solely employ the method of “just pretend you are in danger and people wont realize that you actually don't have anything to say”.
The problem is not even the fact that she cant speak any Arabic or is completely clueless about who is who and what is happening, it is just that she is acting as if she is doing us a favor by being there and making the program.
How can the producers of the show accept to air such shallow and below standard, level of journalism, that is more likely to generate indigestion than any kind of thought or debate.
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