More on media coverage of mob attack on CNN and PBS reporters
Since my previous Google search was unsuccessful, I tried again using different search parameters:
CNN PBS cairo mob
And this time I did find stories on the attack. However, the first two results (and several of the other results) were the same CNN story I’ve already posted, in two of its iterations at Free Republic. The third result was—get this—VFR’s
own story, which was posted at 2:44 p.m. today, one hour and 40 minutes before I did the search. So in under two hours this small blog has had the third highest number of readers on this huge story which happened five days ago. That tells you that the dissemination and readership of this story have been close to zero. Though CNN did post and article about it at its website, it’s been essentially invisible.
Interestingly, the fourth result on the Google results page is PBS’s own article
on the attack, which consists of Margaret Warner recounting the incident. She describes the attack in fairly vivid but neutral terms, as though it had no significance, as though it bore no relationship to anything outside itself. It’s just something that happened.
Below are the Google results, followed by the PBS story. (Note that the text on this entries permanent archive page is spread out too wide. The unembedded urls in the copied Google results page have that effect. There is no ready way I know of to fix this.)
1. Cairo Mob Attacked CNN: ‘They Were Animals’
3 days ago … CNN journalists described the Friday mob that attacked them during the riot … ”
When Margaret Warner, a correspondent with the PBS program …
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2777033/posts
2. Cairo Mob Attacked CNN: ‘They Were Animals’
3 days ago … Cairo Mob Attacked CNN: ‘They Were Animals’ …
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2777033/posts?page=1
3. CNN and PBS reporters mobbed, almost killed, by crowd in Cairo
1 hour ago … CNN and PBS reporters mobbed, almost killed, by crowd in Cairo … down the
road, until the pressure from the mob overwhelmed the pair. …
www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/020486.html
4. Warner Recounts Narrow Escape From Mob Scene at Israeli—PBS
2 days ago … Warner Recounts Narrow Escape From Mob Scene at Israeli Embassy in Cairo.
… When a PBS NewsHour team tried to film the burned vehicles and other … the
CNN producer shielding her with his body, Warner recounted. …
www.pbs.org/newshour/…/warner-recounts-mob-scene-in-cairo.html
5. CNN Journalists Attacked By Cairo Mob During Protests—Car …
3 days ago … CNN Journalists Attacked By Cairo Mob During Protests—Car Stoned … “When
Margaret Warner, a correspondent with the PBS program …
www.thegatewaypundit.com/…/cnn-journalists-attacked-by-cairo-mob-during-protests-car-stoned/
6. Angry crowd turns on journalists reporting embassy attack in Egypt …
4 days ago … Cairo (CNN)—An angry crowd lingering near the Israeli embassy in Cairo … 10
meters down the road, until the pressure from the mob overwhelmed the pair. …
When Margaret Warner, a correspondent with the PBS program …
www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/09/10/egypt…/index.html—
7. Cairo Mob Attacked CNN: ‘They Were Animals’—Middle East—News …
4 days ago … CNN journalists described the mob that attacked them during the riot at the … ”
When Margaret Warner, a correspondent with the PBS program …
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147757
8. NEWS: Israeli embassy in Cairo ransacked by mob
4 days ago … NEWS: Israeli embassy in Cairo ransacked by mob … Meanwhile, CNN reported
that two Egyptians working with a PBS camera crew were …
www.ufppc.org/…/10536-news-israeli-embassy-in-cairo-ransacked-by-mob.html
9. CNN reports attacks on journalists outside Israeli embassy | Just …
3 days ago … CNN covers attacks on journalists outside Israeli embassy in Cairo, as mob
targeted female reporter accused of being Israeli and American spy …
justjournalism.com/…/cnn-reports-attacks-on-journalists-outside-israeli-embassy/
10. Israel Matzav: CNN tells the truth
3 days ago … CNN provides a description of how two of its reporters escaped the rampaging
mob in Cairo on Friday night (Hat Tip: The Muqata). … When Margaret Warner, a
correspondent with the PBS program “Newshour” managed to …
israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/09/cnn-tells-truth.html
Here is the PBS article. Note that though the incident happened on the 10th, PBS didn’t report it until the evening of the 12th.
WORLD—September 12, 2011 at 6:25 PM EDT
Warner Recounts Narrow Escape From Mob Scene at Israeli Embassy in Cairo
Long-simmering tensions between Israel and Egypt boiled over Friday when an angry mob stormed the building housing the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. When a PBS NewsHour team tried to film the burned vehicles and other wreckage the next day, they were suddenly faced with an angry crowd.
Senior correspondent Margaret Warner describes what happened when her cameraman, producer and their local producer went to film in the back of the building as the others waited in a car nearby.
“A particular woman dressed in a black abaya started yelling at them, saying to Denis Levkovich, our cameraman, ‘you’re an Israeli spy’” and accusing the local Egyptian fixer of being a traitor for working with Americans, Warner said.
“They were surrounded, and when they realized they were in jeopardy, they started racing back to the car. Luckily there was another CNN crew there” to help them, she said. “I looked up—I was on the phone in our van—to see this mob descending on the car.”
As the crowd came crushing in, the NewsHour’s local producer was pinned to the ground with the CNN producer shielding her with his body, Warner recounted. He then scooped her up and helped her into the car.
“Meanwhile, some of the guys had actually gotten into the car and were grabbing at me and hitting me, and Morgan, our producer, had been hit as well. It was a tussle,” said Warner, who scrambled into the driver seat and drove from the scene. The van was damaged but “we all escaped safely,” she said.
In Egypt, rhetoric is often directed at foreigners and the United States, saying they are trying to harm Egyptian sovereignty and paint Egypt in a bad light, said Warner. “So the crowds already are incited in that direction.”
Secondly, there appears to be a crackdown on the foreign media, she said. Egyptian security forces raided the offices of Al Jazeera’s local affiliate and arrested some technicians. In addition, the government has issued a ban on issuing new licenses for satellite television and stopped televising the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in an effort to clamp down on what it considers efforts to foment chaos.
There has been a “big change” from the openness that immediately greeted the post-revolution and the media, she added.
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