Roundup of tweets of the arab free press
- 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?
- 11. • Arab newspapers had to move
to #London around 20 years ago. Opened the
door for respecting pluralism of opinions.
- 13. • Despite media blackout attempts
against #Bahrain uprising, protesters have
effectively obtained Social Media to deliver
their voice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
