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- Title: Egypt's Press has Uncertain Future, Says Researcher (Egypt-Press)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 17, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Egypt's press has dim prospects, almost seven months after a popular uprising forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down, having spent more than 30 years in semi-autocratic power, according to a researcher. "Egypt's national press cannot operate as it has in the past; it has lost its economic and political base. But the path forward is extremely hazy at present: will some publishing houses go under, will the government continue to set the political tune of the press, can viable new business models be devised, or will a relapsed authoritarian spirit prevail?" asked Nathan J. Brown in a piece in the Beirut-based influential daily AN NAHAR on Sept. 7. "The national press hardly redeemed itself during the Egyptian revolution. Indeed, as protests mounted, the press swung into its traditional role of simultaneously denying the existence of any disturbances and holding out the threat of chaos if they continued; it smeared the motivations and patriotism of opponents with a variety of contradictory charges," he said in the newspaper's op-ed page.