Also, one more thing on the surrealist, absurdist POV: I'm very disappointed in The New Republic, and other reputable news organizations for their coverage of this story. Their insistence that "there are good points on both sides" smacks of that hyper sensitivity the news media has to being balanced, even in the case where one side is clearly right and one side is clearly wrong. Come on media, let's call a fair game.
Marwan Bishara, the senior political analyst of Al Jazeera English gave an AMA a few weeks back and gave one of the best answers about this:As a news organisation, we are not in search of neutrality. Rather, objectivity. In other words, we would expose the facts regardless of how any which party is affected - or how we might be perceived. In Egypt, there have been some dramatic shifts and twists over the last three years which we have tried to cover to the best of our abilities. That does not mean mistakes have not been made. After all, we are a news organisation that broadcasts 24/7. On the overall, our coverage has been sound but that doesn't mean we have been popular among certain Egyptians or other viewers.