1. ROUNDUP OF TWEETS OF THE
ARAB FREE PRESS FORUM
By
@Xarabic

2. • Sometimes the quick transmitting the news
leads to mistakes.

3. • Majority of participants said the online media
is their number one source for news .

4. • Arab media at the beginning of the Arab
spring were reluctant in covering the
developments transparently.

5. • #RaghidaDergham: another sector in society
may be anti-Islamists and don’t want
revolutions hijacked by them. Youth were key.

6. • Present session: "Is the Arab world any closer
to securing the right to freedom of
expression?"

7. • Yara Bader a Syrian journalist is talking about
the Syrian experience and Aljazeera is for
fun,BBC for serious news.

8. • Mohd Dahshan: the local media change their
language according to what's happening on
the ground

9. • Social media - a key role in the Arab uprisings,
but now a hinderance to the democratic
process?

10. • Multimedia exists but diversity doesn't.

11. • Arab newspapers had to move
to #London around 20 years ago. Opened the
door for respecting pluralism of opinions.

12. • #Elaph was trailblazer as first online paper.

13. • Despite media blackout attempts
against #Bahrain uprising, protesters have
effectively obtained Social Media to deliver
their voice.

14. • Arab revolutions helped twitter , but Twitter
does not support Arabic language.

15. • Most of the participants are astonished about
what is happening in Bahrain and how the
media isn't covering the truth.

16. • "Inciting emotion in the media - morally
understandable but unprofessional," threat to
post-uprising phase - Yemeni journo.

17. • @raghidadergham cites little attention to
role, position of Arab women in Arab media
that supposedly support change.

18. • The situation in #Bahrain is the hot topic
at #afpf12 .

19. • #aljazeera was unmasked when it
ignored #Bahrain uprising & played an
essential role in media blackout against
Bahraini protesters.

20. • Ahram journalist complains about dangerous
fabrication on online social media. We need
mirrors.

21. • #Dergham raises an excellent point: we keep
talking abt media freedoms
but #MENA journos still self-censor + infuse
news w opinion.

22. • #Fahem Boukadous: instigation is part of pix,
video. Indy media is instigation.

23. • Bloggers are exploring the biggest scandal of
Ahram Newspaper about the photoshop
picture.

24. • The technology has a very big role in
transmitting the news because the people are
desiring to use technology.

25. •
Sudanese jouro: "For us, @AJArabic is more of
an impediment than a help. Their turning a
blind eye is very detrimental."

26. • The similarity between state-owned media in
different Arab world is shocking, same
unethical manipulation of truth

27. • Inciting change is a noble attitude for media
outlets. Different from inciting hatred and
violence

28. • @AJArabic used to pride itself for high-tech &
HD. Arab revolutions forced it to rely on low
quality pix & sound