I'm loving the news coverage of the situation in Egypt that recently ended with Mubarak's departure after thirty years in power. It seems as though the news services don't know which of two ways to play it.
On the one hand democratic power is alive and well. Army backed dictator is kicked out by pure, unadulterated people power. Wahey democracy!
But then what is this? One of the largest parties fighting for democracy is openly Islamic? Fuck! Doesn't that mean sharia law and planes flying into buildings? Better include a concluding paragraph hoping that those nutty zealots don't get into power.
Now one might think that the news services might be dissuaded from taking this stance by the fact that nobody has actually provided any evidence that the Islamists (whatever that coinage means nowadays) are threatening to seize power or impose anything that the Egyptian people don't want.
Irrelevant. The readership need to know about this deadly threat to stability in the Middle East. We'll settle for pro-democracy sentiments just as long as the Egyptians pick a government we approve of.
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