Political alignment of the corperate media makes them “unable and unwilling to define their role independently of political camps.” The emergence of poltical influence in Egypt’s media following the Freedom of Justice Part being removed from office and the subsequent military take over by Military leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has transformed the role of media from a way of comparing different views and ideologies into a tool for delegitimising rivials, and demonising them to the point where there eradication from the political space is deemed a necessity. As shown by Hossam Eissa, the minister of higher education labelling the Muslim Brotherhood and its sub groups as a “terrorist group” criminalizing all its activities, its financing and membership to the group.” As a response to a sucide bombing targeting the police head quarters in a Nile Delta city which killed 16 people on the 25th of December 2013. However neither Eissa nor the government have presented evidence linking the Brotherhood to the terrorist attack. Sis has mobilized the business class established by Mubarak against democratic opposition in the form of the media helps to demonise his democratic opposition and also highlight his vision for Egypt’s
Political alignment of the corperate media makes them “unable and unwilling to define their role independently of political camps.” The emergence of poltical influence in Egypt’s media following the Freedom of Justice Part being removed from office and the subsequent military take over by Military leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has transformed the role of media from a way of comparing different views and ideologies into a tool for delegitimising rivials, and demonising them to the point where there eradication from the political space is deemed a necessity. As shown by Hossam Eissa, the minister of higher education labelling the Muslim Brotherhood and its sub groups as a “terrorist group” criminalizing all its activities, its financing and membership to the group.” As a response to a sucide bombing targeting the police head quarters in a Nile Delta city which killed 16 people on the 25th of December 2013. However neither Eissa nor the government have presented evidence linking the Brotherhood to the terrorist attack. Sis has mobilized the business class established by Mubarak against democratic opposition in the form of the media helps to demonise his democratic opposition and also highlight his vision for Egypt’s