"Instead of focusing their attention on ensuring public safety and bringing those responsible for the attacks to justice, security officials are preoccupied with targeting largely peaceful protesters and insulating the government from critical or negative media coverage," Sanei added.
After these comparisons Dawson confirmed that the storyline was planned ahead of the media coverage of the case, adding that he thought the storyline was "far fetched", adding that due to the storyline being a "sensitive" issue it was likely to cause controversy.
"Add to that, the profile and exposure that the associated media coverage would bring with it and it becomes a startling proposition".
"Egypt is feeling severe bitterness towards some Western media coverage," the statement said, adding that the coverage seemed "biased" toward the Brotherhood, and had ignored several countervailing events: the widespread burning of churches, seemingly by Islamists; the attacks on police stations; the supposed use of children as human shields at Brotherhood protests.
pic.twitter.com/lVm24Kd4uQ McQuaid, whose newspaper endorsed Chris Christie in November, added that media coverage and the polls are leading the public to believe that Trump will win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but that would be "an insult to the intelligence of Republican voters".
When asked what the public should make of media coverage of death rates, he added: "Personally, I would suggest that the public ignore them".
He added that media coverage of religious issues often fell short of addressing contentious issues such as corruption within religious administrations, ties between religious institutions and governments, and pressures by religious groups on creativity.
DigiScents, a company that generated a ton of media coverage with its plans to add smells to Web sites, ran out of money and expired last April.
"All of that gets endless media coverage... then when you add into that particular endless media cycle [Islamophobic] statements by very high-profile candidates, you get this poisonous mix..
