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Hello im Richard Gaisford in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories weve been tracking this week elections are coming up in egypt and hungary given what president elsisi and Prime Minister or about have done to the media in their countries they dont have to worry about the way theyre being covered subliminal messages and life sentences six journalists convicted in turkey for allegedly plotting against the government the aftermath of the School Shootings in florida is reverberating throughout the u. S. News media we. In the midst of fun and games to celebrate Chinese New Year one particular sketch on television about africans that the producers probably want to take back. If youre a journalist covering the upcoming election in egypt your contacts in the Security Services may prove more useful than those you have in parliament there have been more arrests than manifestos and the candidates are dropping like flies take abdul more name for example he decided not to run against president elsisi but was arrested this past week anyway upon his return to cairo after doing an interview in london its not just what he said the noun saying egypts crackdown on dissent but where he said it on one of our sister channels al jazeera which is network non grata in egypt is down ball is also on cairos radar these days because of the opposition channels that beam out of there and into egypt and i shop there probably the reason the travel restrictions have been placed on egyptian journalists trying to go there the c. C. Government has its bases covered voices of opposition news outlets that provide them with platforms and journalists with plane tickets our starting point this week is aljazeera is Broadcast Center in london. There are things you just dont say on the gyptian television these days but to shut off. The one. Or even on a channel based outside the country and broadcasting in bottom like Al Jazeera Mubasher and ill do a lot more name. Must have known that. What is considered their headline in egypt because the question the relation between the Egyptian Army and president of the fact that he insinuated in the interview that the relationship between the army and may not be. Solid. Back. That he shot off i couldnt see. For him but i can speak in terms of any voice of opposition to the nation featuring on the edges of the channel and at project to include that is contracted out to the. Us office that is six feet fresh i want you right this minute you know theres not even going to allow any semblance how as a close method of a concession to it its a sign that he feels threatened a regime itself and marginalized and widely opposed contrary to the image and towards to project of itself of being popular and representative got off. Walled off. Value. About. That time which is exactly what happens to abdul name i believe put two or three days after that interview having returned to cairo from london he was jailed along with six members of his Political Party for two was a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood before splitting from the movement to run as an independent candidate in the two thousand and twelve election that Mohamed Morsi and the brotherhood would go on to win of the tens of thousands of egyptians jailed since president elsisi took power from morsi in two thousand and thirteen for two is among the most prominent when he agreed to talk to Aljazeera Mubasher the network knew it had a story on its hands it devoted one hour and fourteen minutes to that interview aljazeera has been banned from egypt since two thousand and thirteen the authorities have jailed its journalists and accused the network of pro Muslim Brotherhood coverage on stories like this one the government and its allies refuse any and all interview requests aljazeera is not the only outside broadcaster in the egyptian mix the last time. Its the government shows for dissent on the domestic airwaves it seems the more news comes from beyond the countrys poor. Appearing and is provocative the core of the gyptian climate however i think the issue goes beyond just europe because now there are gyptian media that are opening up in turkey that can only be understood through the geopolitical angle it is not about lets say turkey or qatar believing and the values of freedom of expression it is more about using media in geo political struggles with other countries that eyes of these channels came as some kind of countering the or fishel state negative by giving a different version of reality altogether a different story and they have positioned themselves from day one as quote unquote oppositional media family list that i can show you seem very badly they say its going to fail me but i will deal with the stumble in based Media Channels are a vital lifeline for egyptians who want to new whats happening there in a very important channel in pushing forward an alternative and in many ways much mood balanced view of the reality Political Economic and security reality in egypt i just have you know a covey at they should not slide sometimes to the same level of propagandistic type of coverage. Maybe. But of that was the u. S. Or some of the insults of the u. S. By the backfired and it might affect their credibility negatively rather than positively in the eyes of a white sect of islam. Among the channels beaming out of istanbul and into egypt the two biggest are shot of and mecca mylene of the two mecca mylene is considered more pro muslim brother. Shot is owned by a former m. P. And party leader iman noor who fled egypt in two thousand and thirteen. Ownership structure is more opaque but its donors have clear links to the brotherhood which makes the network an ultra sensitive issue in each when an International MarketResearch Firm published a survey last year showing that mecca mylene was the countrys most watched Television Channel the authorities closed down the firms cairo offices the official reason given concerns over health and safety in the workplace travel restrictions on egyptian journalists have recently been widened to include turkey again the c. C. Government cited safety concerns calling turkey a war zone which will come as breaking news to turks and the egyptian journalists working their demand that one a little why are they coming to the opposition whether its politicians or journalists all need to grieve to have some fresh. Surely politicians journalists citizens were all suffocating in egypt the media have only one thing on a paper and a pen or a camera and theyre considered enemies of the regime but the regimes media even with all its strength its dozens of channels and millions of dollars cannot stop freedom of speech at the start of. The egyptian media is controlled by the general Intelligence Services what were seeing is increasing control by the ministry through its holdings of supposedly privately. Old and independent Television Channels and news outlets and. The fact that the military and military intelligence are going to control the narrative fully and totally this is complete authoritarianism and i think its represented very clearly now in developments in the media sector. Having long since gained control of news outlets within egypt ban channels they dont like and arrested journalists and politicians who refuse to fall silent what is left for the authorities to do. Get some other voices celebrex to echo the dominant narrative film stars and football are among those who have been added to the nonstop chorus of pro c. C. Voices you will hear and see on the egyptian air one hundred eleven one of these are going to. Lead nowhere without us noticing the sun but is this very of a deep state of fragmentation and polarization and Division Like egypt has never witnessed before and that it is of you either with us or against us so those who are already conditions that might already condition prostate protege him across is either going to definitely be affected by these types of indorsements at least to put a hand picked and used to legitimize the dictatorship of general sisi there would always be a minority of supporters for whatever reasons dictatorial regimes book the boss number of people opposed to this regime do not have a voice and they certainly do not have a voice any kind of representative voice through the media in egypt now. Were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joe had a whose job last week took a long look at the state of journalism in turkey in the wake of the field who of july two thousand and sixteen now six journalists and media workers have been sentenced to life in prison for their alleged involvement in that plot who are they and one of those been convicted of well the six include ahmed all ton his brother matt. And theyre all found guilty of links to the u. S. Based turkish cleric fertility who is accused of being behind failed coup the reporters were convicted of allegedly sending subliminal messages via newspaper columns and experiences on a good t. V. Channel urging the overthrow of the government now its been more than a year and a home since the coup attempt so its pretty hard to believe that for all the trendiest arrested since then these are the first actual convictions just how many legal cases how many arrests are we talking about well according to the new york based committee to protect journalists at least seventy three media professionals remain behind bars mostly without charges or trials making turkey the worlds number one jailer of journalists and although another Turkish Court has just freed a german turkish reporter they mistook cell was jailed last year for allegedly spreading terrorist propaganda and inciting violence a larger pattern is very clear now as Penn International pitted these convictions mark an apex in the disintegration in the rule of law in turkey its been a week and a half since the School Shootings in florida and President Trump is coming under pressure to do something anything about gun control in the u. S. But some of that pressure in the news media is coming from unexpected quarters whats going on well in the aftermath of the shooting survivors have taken to the media both mainstream and social to advocate for tougher gun control laws the right wing media apparatus which tends to. Poes rewriting those laws is contesting that approach fox news Tucker Carlson for instance said the surviving students are being entries loaded a list of a selection and the allegation has been that they are in some way in contact with organized antigun groups and people have suggested that have been denounced as immoral and heartless and how do you know if fox news right so this is kind of to be expected but the networks chief White House Correspondent john roberts got into it with press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders on whether the president has any concrete ideas on the issue on the broader problem of dreams to individuals where the very people industry are busy they are on how do you. Enjoy our birds isnt the only voice on fox news talking that way these days which is new and another Rupert Murdoch own news that the New York Post has published this front page the president now what are we to make of that its probably a bit too early to tell but there seems to be cracks forming in the right wing media on the gun control issue and where the story goes from here where murdochs relationship with President Trump goes well what space ok joe thinks if the polls are to be believed hungary in Prime Minister viktor orban could win his third consecutive election this april and should that happen the media there will have played a large part ever since coming to power for the second time in two thousand and ten the all about government has devoted considerable energy and resources to restructuring the domestic media landscape in its favor the closure of hungarys most influential opposition newspaper in october of two thousand and sixteen made headlines but it was just one example of many government linked buyouts most of hungarys private media is now in the hands of businessmen allied to the Prime Minister and his party for dash those news outlets alongside numerous stayed on channel strongly support or bans anti immigration paul. And tend to amplify his muslim message according to two whistleblowers working at state owned media at the m. T. V. A thats because the government is directing their output and those news outlets deviously following the law listening posts slow phillips now from budapest on victor all the bands ever tightening grip on the hungary and media. At his annual state of the Union Address this past week but to a band here to this paper the issues he says in danger the threat posed by migrants you got a little call it was that the dominance of the European Union. Really badly need. For. The spread of business. To reach out and his disdain for jokes are good for being just any porch should use. It and there to be mexicans do what megali to. That but its clear messages from the field this from the government. And the state may be on the progovernment media just get this message. By three you know the propaganda is growing. Ever so its kind of border public media has been totally conquered by the government since two thousand now they have four channels to Community Directory company and its full time government programs. Time propaganda isnt unique to state media the fidesz parties control extends across the media landscape encompassing both public and private corporations according. The Investigative Journalism out but at last since two thousand and ten allies of the Prime Minister have been buying up numerous hunger in Media Outlets men like former hollywood producer and divina and Old School Friend lawrence measure ups are among a group of fourteen or band allies this collective the board eleven radio stations twenty Television Channels and close to five hundred online and print organizations. State media however remains a powerful megaphone the Umbrella Organization created by the hunger in government in two thousand and eleven is called the m. T. V. s and it oversees all public outlet across t. V. Radio and web. M. T. V. A cost more than two hundred fifty Million Euros a year and is referred to by its critics as quote a taxpayer funded propaganda network. We spoke to two m. T. V. Employees who described a lack of editorial independence and a climate of fear the latter explains why they were wary of speaking out and did so on condition that we disguised their faces and their voices every single thing connected to the master of politics is restricted i mean you cant write anything bad about the government. For example if something is politically sensitive i get instructions. In some cases i have to be made article so i dont need to do anything though i did. See copy and paste the whole article really. Its unimaginable to be honest the editor in chief is generally like a dictator who comes into the office saying hey whats up guys but then when you get to me more from him. In the beginning we used to get emails like. Now he just shouts from one corner of the office we cant be dissing the news its against. Being pro requires the hunger in media to turn against those critical of his government and its agenda that means opposition figures critical voices of the European Union refugees and one well known hunger in emigrant george soros the us space billionaire businessman and philanthropist has through his open Society Foundations funded investigations into the old and government and campaigned in favor of multiculturalism a more open borders ideal squarely at odds with the Prime Minister for all bands fit as part of a source has become a handy scapegoat and when you hear hungary media source represent. The country according to our insiders m. T. B. F. Editorial directives from the government on the star story can be Crystal Clear so one of my books you sent me a word document by mistake we trust produced by the making department of the Prime Ministers office. And this document here makes the case that short of these organizations are rallying support for a massive antigovernment protest ok so here is. The statement. Plus the rule of law he then goes on to say this document that he wants to use illegal methods to overthrow the government. And this whole event. And these happening before our eyes