At Abu AardvarkMarc Lynchcomments on the ruling National Democratic Party’s (NDP) draft legislation aimed at governing the Egyptian media, as reported in the Egyptian newspaper Masry al-Youm. Lynch says that if imposed the law would “establish a new national agency to issue all broadcast licenses, …regulate and censor all forms of broadcast media” and “would effectively destroy any serious politically independent media, putting an end to the only remaining area where anyone can find hope in the Egyptian political system.”
