Mediating the July massacre

It was unquestionably the duty of the mainstream media—especially during the internet blackout when people had no other source of news to turn to—to provide people with actual, factual information about their country, their people, and their government. It was only because the people "took the media into their own hands" through social media that they were able to fulfil the role of the media to inform, to educate, and to persuade.