In the first press conference held by the committee on monitoring the activities of the mass media covering the presidential elections, rapporteur Majdī Dayf said several violations were spotted by the TV stations during the period between April 30 and May 10.

“The committee spotted some excesses by talk show hosts like Muná al-Shāzlī who announced her favoring of presidential candidate Hamdīn Sabbāhī,” the committee chairman, Dr. Safwat al-‘Ālim, said. [Su’ād Tantāwī and Muhammad Tulbah al-Shāf’ī, al-Ahrām, May 14, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic