Arab tyrants, unanimously, while watching the Arab-awakening wave reached their shores, they blamed, or still blaming, the media for inciting it. And instead of answering the grievances of their people, they decided to unleash their absurd media counter-attack. They banned foreign media inside and closed their offices, and went, ironically, to advertise their state "so-called" TVs as the only reliable source of the truth. But foreign media went on covering as they were inside, thanks of course to social networks. Tyrants lost the media war.
Facebook and twitter received most of the credit, but it is Tycoon YouTube which made it all possible. People were given the chance to upload their "amateur" videos of events happening around them, so that social networks, and foreign media in the process, have their oxygen tube.
INSPIRATIONAL VIDEOS
Egypt: People determination prevails
Cairo, Jan, 28.
Egyptian protesters succeeded to push a heavy deployment of riots police off the "Kasr Al Nile" bridge, which leads to the now-famous "Tahrir Square". This video played a role in inspiring ordinary Egyptians, that if they have the enough well, no security apparatus, no matter how fearsome its reputation is, can keep suppressing them. This inspiration paved the way to the fall of Mubarak.
Bahrain: A King's "Reformist Mask" fall
Manama, Feb, 18.
King Hamad of Bahrain portrayed his reign as a reign of reforms and freedom, and not a reign of a police state. In the west, this portray gained credibility. This video is showing the Army fired deliberately at protesters who are rising their bare hand and chanting "peaceful peaceful". It unmasked the real face of The reign and fueled people's anger, which led to massive protests in the following weeks.
A piece of laugh
Activists didn't forget also to use YouTube to hurt the most precious thing of their tyrants, their Prestige. They did it in an amusing way. Here are three of my favorites.
Mubarak's Way
Qaddafi's Hits Track .. "My People love me"
Le Journal de Ben Ali
This article is inspired by Foreign Policy Magazine.
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