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I’m sorry to spoil the party, but I’m troubled by some of the reporting on the upheaval in Egypt, with the focus essentially on the protesters in Tahrir Square. The breathless reporting â€" including by what seems to be every columnist ever employed by The New York Times â€" has neglected what’s been going on in the rest of the country. Al Jazeera’s wanton exaggeration of the number of people on the square, which I saw with my own eyes, reflects that channel’s particular agenda.

I’ve been thinking about something I was told when I was in Cairo the day after hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the square. That night, Mubarak went on TV for one of his speeches, in which he said he would go, but not until September. That remains his position, as we saw again in his rambling and self-deluded address yesterday.

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