Égypte : après la chute de Moubarak, l’Arabie séoudite s’inquiète pour l’image du royaume dans les médias égyptiens
▻https://www.wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/doc124314.html
“You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil, they’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil.”
Égypte : après la chute de Moubarak, l’Arabie séoudite s’inquiète pour l’image du royaume dans les médias égyptiens
▻https://www.wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/doc124314.html
Évoqué dans « Buying Silence » :
►https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/buying-silence
The documents show concerns within the Saudi administration over the social upheavals of 2011, which became known in the international media as the “Arab Spring”. The cables note with concern that after the fall of Mubarak, coverage of the upheavals in Egyptian media was “being driven by public opinion instead of driving public opinion”. The Ministry resolved “to give financial support to influential media institutions in Tunisia”, the birthplace of the “Arab Spring”.