Now with the introduction of 'reforms' that will increase the power of state over the individual, positive media coverage of the nation has become increasingly muted.
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The modified version of Apple Mac's
Orwellian 1984 TV launch advert |
Voting day was billed as "a day that could change the course of Egyptian politics"; state media extolled the virtues of the referendum and its importance to progressive politics. But the Egyptian people chose to vote with their feet and avoid the polls and the international press echoed public sentiment, criticising alleged vote rigging and the violent treatment of referendum protesters.
There is a feature on the growing power of the individual and the internet on political opinion. Viral videos have the potential to reach an audience as big as
FOX or
CNN could ever command – and one man, and his computer have had a huge impact on the US electorate.
Phil De Vellis - a supporter of Barak Obama has modified Apple Mac's Orwellian
1984 TV launch advert and posted it on
Youtube – lighting the fires of political debate that no amount of campaign spin can stop.
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Scambusters are turning the tables on
online con artists |
Plus we uncover the hilarious antics of the internet
scambaiters and
scambusters who are turning the table on online con artists and getting revenge in the name of swindled surfers the world over.
In
Newsbytes, slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya takes a swipe at Putin's Russia. Her diaries, which include accounts of the Beslan school siege of 1996, are published in English this week and will not be hitting Moscow bookstores any time soon.
And social networking has a new facilitator. Multimedia messaging website
Twitter is causing a buzz everywhere from Silicon Valley to Washington DC. The site simply asks 'what are you doing?' and then informs your loved ones of the answer. Ordering a 12' meat feast pizza for one will never be your own dirty little secret again.
And finally a
music video of the week with a political theme – banned by
MTV and commercial radio, British rapper Riz MC muses on life in the post 9/11 world.