Earlier this month, Egypt’s State Information Service (an official news and public relations agency) sent foreign journalists a letter complaining that “Egypt is feeling severe bitterness toward some Western media coverage that is biased to the Muslim Brotherhood” and urging “all media outlets to be accurate in their coverage and not to rely on false information.”
It was galling to be lectured about journalistic standards by the authorities of a country whose own media have been peddling so much vitriol and fantasy recently.
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