Mubarak has his own Fox News Channel

[Enrique]

organizing "patriotic" rallies and whatnot...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/the-beginnings-of-a-crackdown.html

(...)

The pro-Mubarak supporters coalesced into a march of perhaps a hundred or so, and advanced toward the square. At the same time, a much larger pro-Mubarak march, several thousand strong, was coming from another direction, holding portraits of Mubarak, banners, and placards. Many of them wore small laminated Egyptian flags around their necks; when asked where the flags had come from, one said he had got it at the TV station where they had gathered for the march. One man held a banner which read “Baradei, You Are Not a Traitor, You Are a Spy!” But when I asked what it said, he hadn’t read it—it had just been given to him.

(...)

[rfranklin]

1. Heard that one of their reporters quit because of the spin...

She said what they were broadcasting bore no resemblance to the facts.

[KharmaTrain]

2. Most Foreign Broadcasting Is State Controlled...

Such as the BBC. The interesting side story in this revolution as in others is how people are getting their information. Many in Egypt have satellite dishes for the various pan-Arabic networks (like Al Jazeera) that have broken the government monopoly on the flow of information.

[glinda]

3. I thought Anonymous was working on intervening. They should...

[pacalo]

4. Baghdad Bob, Fixed News, & Mubarak crowd-control tactics are all the same.

Bullsh*t.