Community | February 03, 2011 | 12 comments

The heroine of the day is Egyptian Shahira Amin - she quit Nile TV

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She was happy, liberated and relieved she told the BBC. She couldn't handle it anymore, as the deputy head at Egyptian state owned Nile TV. They did not want her to report the truth, and she couldn't see herself being part of the farcical propaganda machine. So, she quit.

Egyptian society is delivering heroes on a daily basis it seems, since the popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak's regime started on January 25, 2011.

Coincidentally, Amin walked out on a day that witnessed many reporters being assaulted by pro-Mubarak thugs. Some of the international news most famous faces were seen on footage, including Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper and dozens of others. They were being shouted down, and in the case of Cooper, he was beaten twice.

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