Egypt has a PR problem, McShane says

The Economist’s Cairo bureau chief Roger McShane is not happy with the way Egypt treats journalists and believes the country has a PR problem, he writes for the newspaper’ssister magazine 1843. “The state often veers from one extreme to the other in its treatment of the press. We are blocked from reporting stories and berated for our bias, and then invited to grand events and fancy conferences — where we are often blocked from reporting and berated for our bias.” McShane says that despite the mns of USD paid to Western PR firms, the efforts are undermined by officials “who are deeply suspicious of the press.”