"When watching current Egyptian television channels, private or public, one is not sure in which age he is living exactly, but it surely isn’t 2013. For westerners, it is post-911 US news channels on steroids and ketamine. For Egyptians, it’s an amalgamation of the worst and cheapest form of propaganda from the ‘90s and the ‘50s. It’s a brilliant time capsule to those who didn’t live in that era and it is broadcast daily on the different Egyptian private TV channels, especially CBC and ONTV. While one wouldn’t expect better from the CBC, it is ONTV that is really fascinating to watch. Not only was it the first channel to take the slogan “war on terrorism”, it is truly waging a war on… something… both locally and abroad… and it is actually terrifying to watch."
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:58:47 +0000
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