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Plenary: Moral Maze - Witness: Abdalla Hassan (Fellow, Eygpt)

20 Sep 2013

Proposition: "Journalism coarsens, simplifies and distorts politics (and the new media won't be any better)"

Abdalla Hassan is not sure whether the new media can make things any better, but he admits that it is totally necessary nowadays. In regards to the importance of traditional media, he states that people have learned to read along the lines from official media, and they can now understand what is true and what is not. In the current crisis of the country, Hassan explains that there has been propaganda campaign that shows opponents as terrorists.'