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As capitol tripoli the violence broke out late on friday. Over the past week, tripoli has seen a build up of rival forces who had jostling for power. Well, those are the headlines. The news continues here on al jazeera. After the listening post of next. There are some of the media stories, a critical look at the global news media outside of us on al jazeera government shut off access to social media. Me the one of the things that really struck me. You could feel not just that people were fearless, but that there were joyous. There was a way in which they brandished time, the ways in which they screamed political slogans that made you feel that these people had no constraint. People did not worry about what may happen to them tomorrow, because what they felt they had at stake was much more important and much less scary than what they could lose if they did not walk on the street till more and more than ordinarily living. There have been so many times since 2011 when i have tried to describe to people and friends of what that feeling was like in the square. And there really are no words. And you have to understand, you werent allowed to say anything. I gave you a lot of not a whole lot in the street. So, you know, just suppose that when walking into the square in 2011 and having pictures of her single bottle with the words leave go with people slapping pictures of his face with their shoes. This was the feeling and the square. Those were the slogans you heard and it was the calculus. Until now it feels like a dream. I remember the 1st shot from the master from the people were the people wont be humiliated to have the chance or the hope for the press for some kind of freedom expression. That was a dream. And thats the uniqueness of that moment. A moment of possibility, the moment of rapture, where the systems of authority were higher, key begins to fall apart. Fame chance that started tenicia basically, no, bob go from tunisia to syria, continued growth worth, you know, it stands in stark contrast to Everything Else that subsequently unfolded, but at least during those moments a touch of glorious future for me. Ah ah, the wave of revolution that came to be known as the arab spring began a decade ago in december of 2000. It was a time in which anything arab mobilize in their millions, in collective cause for democracy, dropped the freedom of expression. Government auto craft, like foreign adopted and ali went with in the special edition of the listening post. Were taking a retrospective look at what happens. The subsequent crushing of democratic move the clamp downs on freedom of the press. The remain in place that weve chosen to focus on the stories of 3 countries to nicea where the movement got to start from egypt, where it appeared to reach a tight and syria where it hit a brick wall. The arab springs starting point came on december 17th, 2010 in the small central. And theres the in city, a city with the state vector name, mohammad. Why is that up with local official corruption. Unable to make a living. Second, it was one individual active protest that would cost was busy his life and ultimately set off shop ways that would travel from north africa to the irradiance. Leave him to the yes, if the regime of president been and he created a kind of Political Police and the whole network to get into peoples heads. So that no matter where you are, no matter who you are. We found the wolf and we can do old 90 on the to even. I mean, hes inside their own home. The not that i speak about been id and obviously people didnt know that to post them social networks or discuss what was happening in the media. Did not dang, pretty side of the regime except to minority within them. And that completely changed. The feeling of fear was completely over 10, said birth put more, but what was bubbling and internees. The 4th was a movement that until the uprising had been underground of bloggers of citizen journalists, of people who use the new emerging Digital Information fear to begin exchanging information to create networks. Once the uprising started into these yeah, that whole network came above tracked. Once tunisia became this magnet for news, but images for stories about that could be a different tomorrow, then it emerged as a note in that big network. There are so many glorious moments that are, that have now become iconic. My personal live with there was short video men and these are so walking up and down the game with st. Tunisia shortly after the follow. Been highly and hes hauling people in their homes on an empty street telling them theres nothing to be afraid of. Youre now free. In his voices, you empty avenue. That was just absolutely mesmerized. And as it traveled around the arab world, it, it ended up inspiring so many others to do the same money. And one of the more remarkable things that happened in 2011 and certainly in the square was this sort of outburst of language and terminology. Words like democracy, freedom just thats right. The protesters in the square frame, their demands and articulate to using a right framework. One huge moment was when want to show me who is a very famous presenter, Egyptian Television interviewed waiting on em, who had just been released from prison. And that into view which it felt like the entire 100000000, the population of egypt watched, was a real turning point one to the media because it was the most honest thing wed ever seen. And to because it just showed real pain of the activist who didnt realize what he had taken aback by what was happening. And from what i can shop then im sure most of them went well and there hadnt been really a symbol of the and uprising up until that moment. And suddenly way him took off some more me egypt. President , host nemo barrak was forced from power on february 11th for days later, the 1st demonstrations broke out in libya. Another leader would fall there from morocco in the west to yemen. And buck rain in the east autocratic and arab leaders faced existential challenges of varying degrees. Some met their citizens demand halfway, others like serious bashar assad, confronted protectors with the government implemented a media blackout banning foreign journalists from entering arrest and local reporters who tried to get the story. The original one on one. And id like to miss the unrest in syria exploded far from the capital graffiti written by a student on the school wall in the border city of data. A message for the president , your turn at the beginning of this year and uprising. Weve heard so many so good saying allow me to, to gather which is period 9. There were this sense that you are with missing and they are being manipulated and presented in a completely opposite way on the state media. That encourages many people who were students who were in the progression carpenters and different kinds of backgrounds to just hold their mobile any cameras that they can get, hold on and document things many serious. So that my showing the word what is happening in their home country, something would change and they believed in the power of media because they saw what it did and the. Ringback ringback i think thats basically when a lot of us again, prematurely i usually are not felt that this is a historic turning point and syria will soon become a free and democratic country where there is going to be free and independent press. And i think thats basically the moment when a lot of people became invested or interested in not just going to demonstrations, but also in creating institutions that embody the sort of democratic moment of hope. So thats basically the moment when you start to have a lot of newspapers, a lot of radio stations, a lot of online magazine, also a lot of people study organizations and obviously, you know, i mean, now in hindsight, realize this was completely naive because journalism in this in the sense or bearing witness in the sense that not actually making a huge difference the in the house in days of the era spring algae 0 was a key punch for the move. In the month of the beams across the region and around the world has gone. Lets go live to cairo. In egypt, things went to algebra was perceived for the 1st government elected ascii before headed by mohammed morrison. And the muslim brothers resulted in the networks reputation. One that had been seen years in the making being challenged al jazeera. Busy played a substantial role from its inception really in 1996 in shifting the news agenda in such a way to allow those who are not in government to critique those who are in before you know, and ill just here as cameras were in the right place at the right time. Raining down. Be seen cnn. All the major sort of broadcast was around the world. Were picking up here is exclusive footage. So al jazeera was able to, to really bring the narrative of social mobilization and protests from the arab world to the world at large, and to elevate the discussion in such a way that made the aspirations of the protesters and the region. The only story worth exploring the Muslim Brotherhood who was perhaps the most well organized political 4th one, the election. The rules that lasted barely one year was not what people had hoped for. Corruption continued authoritarianism, continued one of the reasons that people stop following as united egypt for example, is because a lot of them felt that if this is the voice of a political formation that has failed and that has now been displaced from power, then that news outlet is no longer an important source of new ah, by 2013, the morsey government had been deposed in the authorities, then tried to take al jazeera and egyptian journalism. Down with the new government was led by military man turned president. Abdulla fata, al cease 3 al jazeera employees were among the dozens of media workers arrested on stacys watch. The court case was a show trial. The governments evidence against al jazeera was feeble, but reputations suffered all around me. That same year on august 21st, the Assad Government showed its citizens and the world how far syria was prepared to go to suppress the kind of descent that had toppled other arab leaders. The rockies led slammed into the outskirts of damascus that day carried chemical weapons. And it was one of the biggest massacre is more than 1500. 00 people were killed at that one. So its supposed to, to shake something on the, in for some kind of action or reaction. And so when it didnt, then nothing we can do is going to be changing. Our reality is nothing we can do or document or film or be killed for that word. The stop this massacres and this horror then its useless. And thats when weve seen many citizen journalists shopping this and going back to their shops, to their workshops. And im just giving, ah, i think that was a turning point. Not only for syrians in the sense that, you know, the world is not gonna do anything for scott, the saying regime from perpetrated war crimes. It was also a moment of despair for journalists around the world in the sense that it completely blunted the emancipatory and incisive razor of journalism at journalism did not matter anymore. And it did not make a difference, a more doctors, lawyers, and now journalists are all to mortgage on the government. That was the case, crossed the middle east and north africa, the globe back against descent. And the coverage of it just grew worse back. And i, egypt right now in 2000 people has been arrested. Ive been that those governments have also diversified, their dissemination of propaganda. Outsourcing what was once the responsibility of state home channels, to privately owned outlets, some newly taken over by the state. Others just eager to please in egypt, media have proven night after night that more voices do not add up to a plurality of opinion. Journalism such a critical component at the outset of the arab spring has become one of its long term casualties. The gyptian state under c c is not a practitioner of the old style of propaganda where you have, you know, the one news anchor of the state television child that everybody watches who says what the leaders want you to hear for the very 1st time a lot of the Main Television channels in egypt are directly on by the egyptian military. Right . This is new. This did not used to be the case. Thats dynamic number one. Dynamic number 2 is the unleashing of these larger than life insufferable personalities on talk. Sure. Ill have a what, what do the more go ahead, larry, aka lynn. The loud war in these personalities tend to turn the state narrative into an irresistible drama. Yeah. Theres one kid i love fog hunt good. And thats why conspiracy theory, by theater, of the absurd by propaganda and part, political talk show that the people find irresistible. Wow. You dont have to put in place. And so in combination, i think these to create sort of a very toxic media here on a warning. And then the regional large has some of the worst ratings. As far as the treatment of journalist, detained journalist, prosecutor, journalists, journalists, who are either exiled or sent to live abroad, one of the greatest losses in this process is the ability to tell reality, as it is the ability to relay truth to audiences and public at large so thats a very, very hefty cost to pay, and unfortunately, it has major repercussions across the board in the sense that you only need to target a handful of journalists before the rest of them are in line. And then in some countries, it wasnt just governance. So did the other act proxy players, rivals for Town Together managed to turn the middle east into one of the worlds most dangerous places to come to the scores of our journalists have killed exiled, were now languishing channel among them. And now, just as much has been held charge in cairo for, for you. The egyptian photo journalist shop spent 6 years in prison for taking pictures of approach in syria and was killed in a rush in the air strike on the city of his camera was rolling as shes gone in. And you can add the name of another syrian to the list of journalists taken before their time. His killing thought to be at the hands of the militants, formerly affiliated with our right and left a whole difficult hundreds of people as well. No serious radio hosts believed. Revenue should bring change to syria side, decided he was not just a journalist. He was one of the reasons why pro uprisings were able to say that it is not regime against you had, is more of these. They are people who are fighting both parties for their own dignity for their basic. He was threatened by their a gm, his house was destroyed and he kept refusing to stop. He kept resisting all of the facts that he was facing, establish a fresh show last year, the 1st year which was completely based syria with tens of south poplar women. So he was that exceptional and i think that was too much for any dictator for any criminal to, to handle so many tried to kill him before i sadly they succeeded the against those challenges. There are some like hideous art jewelry that have proven independent journalism. Can survive even flourish after the spring. Smarter musser and inky father into nicea have done the same under different circumstances. They all offer quality reporting expertly presenting that audiences have come to value given the restrictions and in some cases the dangers the reporters face. Their work is over, more noted as your audio was established on a, in march, 2012. When we realized that something unprecedented was happening in the country. And it was very important for syrians to not only be ab citizen journalists simply reporting to basically provide International Journalists with the footage and the raw data for others to come and sort of edits and analyze. We need to have our own place where it wasnt just citizen journalism. It was also in depth report cards for the syrian conflict in a way not to be reduced to just the daily, the death toll of its heroes and its martyrs and its victims. But also for syrians to take a step back and to be able to come together to reflect and to think not only about the present, but also about the future. Even though tommy john dip on the old as a to use into fridays in independent Media Outlets basting chinese, which was established in 2014 by janice developers and graphic designers. Although i dont know who we are partners and friends with outlets like madam ashley neeagins, admiral young, syria and many other media with the same out killed mold. And the want to be independent of the influence of big powers and reason to produce stories that are not picked up by mainstream media. And to show what they do, not necessarily want 2 more quick corner of the puffy mom will play unless we are part of this movement of a tentative, ive read the media that now