Imagine being blindfolded and instructed to walk. You’re on the edge of a hill and you don’t even know it. Would you walk? Now, what if the person instructing you to walk pushed you? You would free fall off the hill. You are the victim that has been free falling. Have you hit rock bottom yet? Who pushed you? It was the Egyptian media. The bias of the media has slowly engrained its way into every Egyptian household through televisions, Egypt’s most prevalent medium. The television, which is comprised of mostly state-influenced channels, entails a large following. While many television channels are privately owned in Egypt, the Egyptian government indirectly asserts its influence on the gatekeeping of these television channels. In simple terms, the government can indirectly influence the decisions of television channel owners when deciding what information is revealed and what information is concealed. You can call it self-censorship fueled to preserve economic interests; that is essentially what it is. Simply put, in Egypt, it has now become standard for television channels in Egypt to value economic interests over journalistic values. Valuing economic interests often entails reflecting government interests, or even…
