With the protests still going on in Egypt, the international community is relying on journalists with satellite phones for real-time updates. Since the Government has made the internet inaccessible for the people of Egypt all the updates concerning the protests calling for Hosni Mubarak to resign after 30 years in power are being made available by the journalists.

The Government has blocked all the communications channels, including the Internet, SMS, TV broadcast by journalists, and mobile networks and now.

It however yet is not very clear but the experts have put forth their observations saying that they have been weighing the role played by social media in sparking the uprising. This is also being considered as a very important constituent in escalating the modern revolutions.

Though the Government has been trying real hard to block communication yet the stories have still managed to come up through reporters. All attempts have failed in the real sense because every time one or the other story about the citizens on Egypt has come up, sometimes by word of mouth and sometimes through sources.

One very important observation is that the interesting is that the information which happens to come out is a mixture of the ‘old school’, reliance on reports from journalists on location and ‘new school’, amplification through the social web.