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Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by tsarzen »

madeofpalk wrote: post #10
tsarzen wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a big story because the death sentence sends a message to the world that foreign journalists risk their life just for reporting the news in Egypt. It suggests that Egypt is heading towards a closed, non-democratic future and could pose a significant risk to other countries. This piece is from an Aussie news site, so obviously it will highlight that the journo was Australian. But the bigger story is that - des…

Australia, on the other hand, is 'open for business'

Haha.. let's not go down the rabbit hole of Australia's current political situation.

Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by icebraining »

1egyptian wrote: post #3

Egyptian here. Puzzles me how such a piece gets all the attention, while hundreds of other Egyptians sentenced to death, and other thousands killed in peaceful protests do not get nearly as much coverage.. Oh, an Australian

For what it's worth, The Daily Show has been covering Egypt fairly regularly, including having Gihan Ibrahim as a guest earlier this month.

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Post by davidw »

1egyptian wrote: post #3

Egyptian here. Puzzles me how such a piece gets all the attention, while hundreds of other Egyptians sentenced to death, and other thousands killed in peaceful protests do not get nearly as much coverage.. Oh, an Australian

Actually, this article should not really even be here as it's about politics/current events:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by jpatokal »

madeofpalk wrote: post #10
tsarzen wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a big story because the death sentence sends a message to the world that foreign journalists risk their life just for reporting the news in Egypt. It suggests that Egypt is heading towards a closed, non-democratic future and could pose a significant risk to other countries. This piece is from an Aussie news site, so obviously it will highlight that the journo was Australian. But the bigger story is that - des…

Australia, on the other hand, is 'open for business'

Downvoters unfamiliar with Oz politics: This is a mildly notorious political catchphrase, not too far off from "Mission accomplished" in the US.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/election-20...

Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by adobriyan »

harry8 wrote: post #5
1egyptian wrote: post #3

Egyptian here. Puzzles me how such a piece gets all the attention, while hundreds of other Egyptians sentenced to death, and other thousands killed in peaceful protests do not get nearly as much coverage.. Oh, an Australian

A foreign journalist working for a news organisation with a pretty good reputation. Generally that's news wherever it happens in the world. I haven't been following what has happened in Egypt. I now know it has become a place where foreign journalists working for Al-Jazeera are sentenced to prison when those in power don't like the reported stories. I'm sure there's a lot more nuance than that and it's a view through…

> From spring straight to winter?

That would be Ukraine, where two Russian journalists were killed recently during bombing of Lugansk.

Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by rwallace »

harry8 wrote: post #5
1egyptian wrote: post #3

Egyptian here. Puzzles me how such a piece gets all the attention, while hundreds of other Egyptians sentenced to death, and other thousands killed in peaceful protests do not get nearly as much coverage.. Oh, an Australian

A foreign journalist working for a news organisation with a pretty good reputation. Generally that's news wherever it happens in the world. I haven't been following what has happened in Egypt. I now know it has become a place where foreign journalists working for Al-Jazeera are sentenced to prison when those in power don't like the reported stories. I'm sure there's a lot more nuance than that and it's a view through…

I've been following enough of what's happened in Egypt that I can tell you this is the least of the bad news from there; spring passed straight to winter quite a while ago. In short, foreign interference in Egypt - in the Middle East in general - in recent years has been an unmitigated disaster. It's long past time we in the West started minding our own business and focused on fixing the problems in our own countries instead of exacerbating the problems in other people's countries.

Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by madeofpalk »

jpatokal wrote: post #15
madeofpalk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australia, on the other hand, is 'open for business'

Downvoters unfamiliar with Oz politics: This is a mildly notorious political catchphrase, not too far off from "Mission accomplished" in the US. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/election-20...

I prefered the D-Day kerfuffle http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/tony-abbott-vid...

Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by 1stop »

Killah911 wrote: post #13
amrrs wrote: post #8

Politics in Hacker News? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This isn't exactly politics is it? It certainly is about geopolitical event, but not quite one party vs another.

Because we all agree that we hate republicans... I mean egypt?

It's political, but it's not US politics, so it seems to pass the 'not political' HN test.

Odd, but seems true from my experience.

Re: Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt

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Post by chris_wot »

1egyptian wrote: post #3

Egyptian here. Puzzles me how such a piece gets all the attention, while hundreds of other Egyptians sentenced to death, and other thousands killed in peaceful protests do not get nearly as much coverage.. Oh, an Australian

Perhaps that's because those overseas journalists who report these things have been put in jail for 7 years. Oh. Overseas free press.
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