Proliferation of Opposition Movements in Arab Media

The Arabist discusses the response of numerous Arab governments to the prevalence of political dissidence and airing of governments’ political incompetence on satellite TV and internet sites. In Egypt, the Ministry of Information has just finished preparing a new “code of ethics” in order to “put limits on what satellite TV stations could broadcast, especially when the topic was political in nature,” while in Saudi Arabia, the government has banned live talk shows “after someone mocked the size of a recent public servant salary increase, which was seen as a criticism of the royal family.”