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On Jan. 25, 2011, when the Arab Spring arrived in Egypt, the end ofHosni Mubarak's three-decade reign in Egypt was just weeks away. For the western media, that outcome was not immediately obvious,despite the loud chants of "Down with Mubarak" ringing out inCairo's Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt. It took about a day before that possibility began to beentertained. Another event could be part of the reason for the short delay.Later that first day, in a different time zone, U.S. PresidentBarack Obama would give his annual state of the union address andthe media was focussed on that story. CBCNews.ca did have a substantial news story on the protests on Jan. 25 but it was not on the website's frontpage, at least at the end of the day . On television, The National had a 20-second report. Topping our list of the day's most viewed stories online was, " Mexico resort barred ambulances after fatal blast ." Over at the New York Times website, at one point during the day on Jan. 25 , the Egypt protests were the lead story. But by evening the storyhad dropped in their lineup so that it was necessary to click downa screen to find it, as Obama's speech took the limelight. Egypt not mentioned in 2011 State of the Union speech This was the lead image on CBCNews.ca's Jan. 25, 2011 story on thefirst day of protests in Egypt., The original caption read,"Protesters clash with police in downtown Cairo on Tuesday, inunprecedented protests inspired by the revolt that brought downTunisia's president." (Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters) Obama did not mention Egypt in his address. However, after a reference to South Sudan, he did have this tosay about Tunisia: "We saw that same desire to be free in Tunisia, where the will ofthe people proved more powerful than the writ of a dictator. Andtonight, let us be clear: the United States of America stands withthe people of Tunisia, and supports the democratic aspirations ofall people." The role of Tunisia featured prominently in CBCNews.ca's first newsstory on the Egyptian protests: "Crowds filled Tahrir Square waving Egyptian and Tunisian flags and adopting the same protestchants that rang out in the streets of Tunis," the story read,based on the reporting of Associated Press journalists in Cairo. Turning analytical, the story later said, "It is the example ofTunisia, though, that appeared to be enough to push many youngEgyptians into the streets for the first time." By day two, the protests are a big story As the protests in Egypt continued, they were the big international story on Jan. 26 , and one of the most viewed stories on CBCNews.ca. The news story quotes from a CBC interview that morning withprotester and freelance journalist Mohamed Abdelfattah, who saidthe first day of protests "was history in the making." Speaking from Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, he told theCBC's Heather Hiscox that, "the high dam of fear has alreadycollapsed and the water is flooding massively." You can listen to Heather Hiscox's original phone interview withAbdelfattah via the "Egyptian protesters remain defiant" video linknear the top of this page, and also see some of the earliest videoof the protests. Social media played a big part That story also reported that the Egyptian authorities wereblocking access to Facebook and Twitter, social media that had beeninstrumental for organizing the protests. That story of social media's role in the Arab Spring is presentedin the BBC documentary, "How Facebook Changed the World: The ArabSpring," which is running this week on The Passionate Eye on CBC News Network. You can also watch it online via the videolink near the top of this page. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Paper Slitting Machine , China Flexo Printing Machine for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Cardboard Making Machine.
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