ABSTRACT
The point of Baudrillard's Hyperrealist epistemology can best be summed up in the word 'uncertainty'. Whereas Antirealism brackets out discussion of Reality, Hyperrealism exposes the uncertainty of Reality. For Egypt, the image of the crowd was so strong and motivating that it became the focus point for the protest and revolution, in effect framing the protests themselves as the cause of the change. Journalism generates and re-enforces ideology as structured by the medium of communication instead of being a 'neutral' medium for the flow of 'neutral' information. Baudrillard's critique of the Reality of the Gulf War rests on firm epistemological grounds. Journalists would certainly not like to see themselves as 'propagators' of terrorism, yet that function is there and is out of their control. Tunisian Revolution leads to the Egyptian Revolution because the Egyptians viewed it on TV but that the hypermediated Egyptian Revolution itself snowballed due to its hypermediation.
