Image Credit: CNNWhile a nationwide uprising in Egypt calls for democracy, the movement’s opponents — supporters of President Hosni Mubarak — have been attacking the international media who have converged there to cover the conflict. With what seems like unprecedented frequency and focus, prominent U.S. television reporters — along with many other foreign journalists, from Al Jazeera and the BBC to Reuters and the Associated Press — have faced pointed aggression from angry mobs, including a highly publicized assault yesterday on CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his crew in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Demonstrators tried to grab the camera, punched the cameraman and Cooper, and scratched Cooper’s producer before the reporter and crew could retreat to a more secure location, where he told viewers about the attack.
Later, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric was crowded by demonstrators as she filmed in the city, while CBS correspondent Lara Logan reported that the Egyptian army is now preventing crews from covering the protests. “For the first time in the last few days you can really feel what dictatorship means,” she said. READ FULL STORY »
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