On The Listening Post this week: Eight years since the revolution, the squeeze on Egypt’s embattled media is tighter than ever before. Plus, President Sisi’s talk show bias. After spring came winter: The fall of the Egyptian media It’s been eight years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the uprising that briefly liberated Egyptians and their media from life under one-man rule. Fast-forward to the present day and President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s government is doubling down – tripling down – on controlling the news media – measures that rights groups say are unprecedented in the country’s recent history. With the margins of acceptable speech narrower than ever and journalists expected to demonstrate complete loyalty to the state, discerning truth in Egypt from propaganda, gets more difficult by the day.
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