Cairo Journalism School

I'd love to go to one of those schools. To get an Egyptian journalism award, I'd have to come up with some crazy and sick story of Israeli government plotting, murder, or God knows what - just anything anti-Israeli and I'm in. It's the mother of National Enquirer magazines or worse. Over the weekend I read that in a Cairo newspaper it was reported that Israelis and US are to blame for the Tsunami disaster. We were reportedly (by who?) doing some naval exercise in the area and something exploded which caused the earth to quake and the tsunami to happen. Everytime there is any disaster in any part of the world, Israelis are always to blame. Like when the World Trade Center terrorist attack happened, and the same journalists from that same school of journalism reported that it was Israelis who maneuvered the entire thing. What geniuses we are.

Not to mention that Iranian television is pretty bad too. I was really saddened to note that they have a television series that featured a young girl whose eyes were taken out by Israeli doctors for use in illegal transplants.

How on earth can these kinds of media stories/features be stopped. You'd think that normal people wouldn't believe this garbage but they do. Even Hubby's partner Abed, when Arafat died, believed that the Israelis poisoned him, because that what was written in some tabloids. He'd believe the tsunami thing too. And he's just a regular guy.