As the world and the Middle East held its collective breath while the crisis in Egypt exploded in a military coup that ousted that country’s first popularly elected president this July 3, CNN demonstrated perfectly how poorly our mainstream press covers international stories of global importance. As Americans, we are of course used to a terrible
On American TV, It’s Trials Versus (Egyptian) Tribulations
Except for the transnational economic elite, U.S. cable news viewers barely had an inkling of the revolutionary events unfolding in Cairo last week.