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Besides the money shot photo-op of protestors praying in front of static riot police, Friday was notable for a second major media angle--it was the day the Mubarak regime cut off the nation's Internet and cellphone service. CBS' Daniel Sieberg noted that Egypt 2011 thus joined the ignominious company of Nepal 2005 and Myanmar 2007. CBS' Palmer had already introduced us to the social network aspect of Cairo's protests with a primer on how urban youth used Facebook and Twitter to mobilize. When the Internet was cut off, Palmer pointed to a slightly older medium: "The Arab satellite channels have covered it like a blanket so anybody who has access to a television in Egypt knows exactly what is going on." NBC's Engel offered a tip-of-the-hat here to al-Jazeera for videotape of police paddy-wagons running over demonstrators crossing a bridge over the River Nile during the Friday march.
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