Wed, 05/12/2012 - 19:47
Dream TV, Al-Hayat, CBC
and ONTV decided to end a blackout in protest against restriction of
free expression in the new constitution and start broadcasting Wednesday
night to cover the clashes at the presidential palace.
Wael al-Ibrashy, a presenter
at Dream, said the channels decided to cancel the blackout “to expose
the scheme of the Muslim Brotherhood to ignite a civil war between the
Egyptian people” after Brotherhood supporters were sent to “protect
legitimacy” against an opposition sit-in there.
Ibrashy said in a press
statement on Wednesday, “We responded to the calls of hundreds of
thousands of citizens not to leave the scene during such a sensitive
time”
The media would be betraying
its basic purpose, in Ibrashy's opinion, if it failed to expose these
schemes, “therefore we decided to cancel the blackout so as not to leave
the [media] arena to one viewpoint that would deliberately ignite a
civil war.”
He stressed that all TV shows have returned on Wednesday.
The official ONTV Twitter
account posted, “We continue the coverage due to the developments of
events and to what duty requires.”
The satellite channels had
decided to blacken screens, as newspapers, TV channels and news websites
went on strike Tuesday to reject the constitutional declaration and the
new draft constitution.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
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