Double-Faced Media

In one of the online series discussing the post-Mubarak situation of Egypt in a funny ironic manner, Mona Tov talked about the Egyptian celebrities who were giving pro-government opinions during the famous recent Egyptian protests, but “converted” to become anti-government, pro-protests after the famous stepping down of Husni Mubarak.

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The video is absolutely hilarious (I strongly recommend watching it if you understand Arabic), as it contains several videotaped interviews and phone calls with the same celebrities before and after Husni Mubarak’s “resignation”, and the differences in their opinions before and after the resignation are absolutely huge. One singer has even changed some of the lyrics in his song to make it sounds like it is dedicated to Egypt The Country rather than Mubarak the Fired-President. This is how ridiculous some of the sections in the video were. Yet we have to keep in mind that this guy is a singer, nothing more, nothing less. On a personal level, I believe that a singer’s political opinion does not really count for much, a singer’s job is to use their voice to sing, and not to give political statements.

However, one interesting part of the video shows a famous serious-shows presenter over two interviews, totally contradicting himself with regards to his attitude towards Mubarak. In the first interview he says that he supports Mubarak, in the second he says that there is NOWAY Egypt could possibly live worse times than those lived during the age of Husni Mubarak.

It is a shame that these people are let around running free on television screens, giving their opinions on political and social subjects; subjects that really matter to the public. But then again I have to stop and think out loud: if the public cared enough, those people would not be on T.V in the first place…

Whoever managed to remove a president should now think about and be able to remove people with double faced opinions.

Television needs serious filtering…