Moor: Television fails to capture the wider experience of Tahrir

Ahmed Moor
I just wanted to write a quick note about media coverage of what's been going on here in Cairo. I haven't had much access to outside media over the past eleven days, but I managed to watch a few hours of BBC and CNN coverage last night. Most of the coverage highlighted the ongoing clashes between demonstrators and Mubarak's goons. The footage, the commentary, the anchor's questions to correspondents on the ground all seemed focused on the violence. But what wasn't communicated on either network while I watched was that there were more than one hundred thousand people in Tahrir Square at the time.
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