Thousands in the square, but losing the battle?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/feb/06/egypt-hosni-mubarak

Jack Shenker at 10:52 am
The standoff between protesters in Tahrir and the Mubarak regime is a media battle as much as anything else, and it's a vastly unequal one: the Egyptian government spends millions of dollars on a trio of top Washington lobbyists to help push its message to the international media and foreign policy-making circles, whilst those opposed to the regime have to rely on word of mouth and online social media sites, access to which has regularly been cut off by the authorities in recent days.