Egyptian Media Being Censored For Criticising Islamist President Morsi

The fact that the Obama Administration would do the exact same thing if they could get away with it speaks volumes about the state of the “Land of the Free” today …

USA Today – “CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court ordered the Saturday editions of a newspaper confiscated over allegations it insulted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and instigated sectarian discord, Egypt’s official news agency said.

Editions of Al-Dustour, a privately owned daily, were seized after several individuals filed lawsuits accusing it of ‘fueling sedition’ and ‘harming the president through phrases and wording punishable by law,’ MENA said.

It was not clear whether the paper was barred from publishing completely. Newspaper al-Masry al-Youm said authorities have removed al-Dustour from newsstands.

The paper, a tabloid owned by a Christian businessman, has been fiercely critical of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood while showing strong support for the military council, which took power after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in last year’s uprising. Both Morsi and the military council are in midst of power struggle.

Saturday’s edition featured a lengthy front-page article warning of a Brotherhood ’emirate’ seizing Egypt and calling on Egyptians to join ranks with the military to confront Islamists. The lawsuits also accuse the paper of inflammatory coverage of recent sectarian violence.” Read more.

Flashback: New York Times Admits Obama Censors the Media, Manually Approves Stories – “Jeremy W. Peters of the New York Times has revealed the truth about the media that we all knew… that the media is reporting on the news through a filter. They will only report what the boss in charge aka Obama want them to report. The reason they agree to it is because they want access to the President. ‘The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative. They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name. Under President Obama, the insistence on blanket anonymity has grown to new levels.” Read more.