It is the responsibility of the regulatory agencies to warn the government if public money is being wasted, as they are answerable to the President. But what is actually happening is that the taxpayers' money is being wasted before their eyes, while there are many who die of hunger, poverty and disease, let alone that blacksmith who killed those two girls for just 200 pounds.
I say this because the report of the Central Auditing Agency proved that Rose Al-Youssef, which lives on taxpayers' money, is wasting millions of public money every morning. I stopped reading that daily newspaper a long time ago because I do not like indecency and preying on people's personal lives. Also I do not care much about its Chief editor Abdallah Kamal. I was a year ahead of Kamal at the Faculty of Mass communication. At that time, I did not really know if I would be a successful journalist or if I would end up selling newspapers on the street. But Kamal knew exactly what kind of reporting he should do to get him to the top. This man is in the habit of praising those who insult him and insulting those who praise him. He has his own clique that he bets on, which does not concern me much. But what shocked me and made me write today is not the report itself, but rather the silence of the officials. They do not care about the taxpayers' money that is being wasted by a newspaper that is run by losers and read by no one.
The report says that every copy of that paper loses LE 1.62, and that it only sells 1450 copies a day, which means a cascade of losses. This is not a private sector company, which makes it a crime by its officials who were entrusted with the money of the people only to spend it on defaming and insulting the symbols of this country.
No one in the Supreme Press Council or the Shura Council that owns that institution bothered to move. Also no one in the National Democratic Party or its Policies Secretariat that Kamal claims he is talking on its behalf bothered to even comment. When will the leaders of that Secretariat realize that this newspaper is insulting them every morning and is inciting hatred against them? Any achievement would not be relayed to the people except through a respectful media. And the Policies Secretariat has made many achievements in the past few years, such as attaining a high growth rate, a structural reform in the banking sector and a surplus in the cash reserves. However, the party's popularity has tumbled. Why? Because the media that relays these achievements is a flop. It's only discourse is mistrust and insolence. This is why such papers end up in the garbage can everyday. Does the National Party now know why it lost credibility in the street? The state-owned media used to be a beacon of respectful communication serving the government professionally. Today, that media made the government lose its respect. ‘Earth' was the name of a magazine that we used to print when we were in high school. It was poorly printed, but it sold 7,000 copies. We had to close it down because it did not make profit. But still, it sold four times more than what Rose Al-Youssef sells today.
