The classical tragedy that surrounds media in Egypt is related to the lack of proper boundaries between journalism practice, and education through the prism of civil society. Indeed, there is a dysfunctional relationship between the public and the state, which created a situation of dissonance and continuous fighting against each other on one hand, and vulnerable structure of civil society, all work together to lead to the climactic ending of making it a story of savage grace.
It is thus rational to note that good governance, and vigorous civil society are the only path to realize missing democracy. For successful democracies, media usually carry out the four dimensions of governance: authority of institutions and actors, transparency of the decision-making process, accountability of the government, and the capacity and effectiveness of institutions in exercising their authority.
In Egypt, this is not the case due to the lack of free media that monitor government performance & publicize abuse, as well as the lack of irrespective of will, and misses the basic socio-political and economic climate, especially that governments since 1952 have always depended on coercion as the means of repressive everyone very vulnerable and scared from any change.
There is a general phenomenon of ‘crisis of governance’ that has resulted from the long years of adopting the ‘etatist’ approach and the weak indigenous business class, and the professed commitment to social equality! Indeed, the patriotism and the acute external threats have substituted the supposedly self-discipline of a rationalist elite for the extreme discipline of a strong vigilant civil society.For example, journalism is strictly manipulated by state intervention, censorship, legal and regulatory issues.
This dim picture has projected a very thin citizenship that is good for no one because the uninformed public fell for pseudo-slogans and got swayed by lofty rhetoric with little regard for policy differences and voting records.
