Egypt: Debating the Role of the Media in Covering Blogger’s Arrest · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

This post is part of our special coverage Egypt Revolution 2011.
On the 31st of March, journalist and blogger Sarah Carr sent the below tweet asking about the status of Maikel Nabil Sanad's military trial. Blogger Nabil was arrested from his home on 28 March, and he is accused of “insulting the army” as well as publishing [Ar] “false news about the army”.
Meanwhile, many users on Twitter accuse the local media of ignoring Nabil's case, and have started to ask the Egyptian ON-TV host (Yosri Fouda) to shed some light on the case. Fouda then decided to elaborate more on his stance.
Carr then decided to debate with Fouda about his role as a TV host.
Other users on Twitter joined the debate.
While others couldn't agree more with Fouda
Fouda then continued to elaborate more on his stance and the role of the media according to his own point of view.
Finally, and away from Yosri Fouda being one of the few TV hosts who have a presence on Twitter, Andre Fares has his own reasons why such heat from Twitter users was directed to Fouda specifically. Fares also clarified that they are criticizing him mainly because they respect him.
This post is part of our special coverage Egypt Revolution 2011.