Press Release
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The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development issued a report on Monday, October 9, 2023, entitled:
“Trends in Foreign Newspapers and Western Media in Dealing with the Presidential Elections in Egypt 2024: Content Analysis for the Period from July 1 to September 30, 2023”. The report reviews the Western media’s handling of the 2024 presidential elections.”
The report pointed out the negativity and bias of the foreign media in its media coverage of political events and the election period in Egypt, as the sample included in the report revealed that the Western media uses exaggeration in writing news related to the presidential elections.
In some coverage, he resorts to exaggerating it to serve the agendas of his state’s interests. The Western media is professional in the policy of exaggeration and misinformation in its treatment of Egyptian issues, by broadcasting targeted news, fabricated information, fallacies, and incorrect data that lack logic and reality, to satisfy pressure groups or financiers.
The report also addressed what was monitored of news materials circulating in foreign media about Egyptian affairs during the period of preparation for the Egyptian presidential elections in 2024, from July 1 to September 30, as the media coverage by these media focused on specific issues, including:
- Questioning the integrity of the upcoming presidential elections and describing them as false democracy.
- Confirmation on President Sisi’s victory in the upcoming presidential elections for a third presidential term.
- Following up on the names that announce their possible candidacy for the presidential elections.
- The arrest of some members of the campaign of potential candidate Ahmed Tantawi.
- Support the potential candidate Ahmed Al-Tantawi and the opposition in the upcoming elections.
- Criticism of the ruling system in Egypt and President Sisi’s policy.
- Condemn the harassment faced by opponents, presidential candidates, and their assistants.
- Deteriorating economic conditions.
The study concluded with a number of observations, the most important of which are:
First: The negativity and bias of foreign media in its media coverage of political events and the election period in Egypt.
Second: Western media exaggeration in dealing with Egyptian issues.
Third: News reports rely on information sent without verifying the information.
Fourth: The lack of impartiality of the sources on which these newspapers’ reports were based.
