Gulf Daily Idiots

Shaikh Salman was interviewed on Sky News yesterdayish. 

In the Gulf Daily News the headline reads: 

Bahrain defies global slowdown as safe investor haven

On the Sky News website its a different story altogether:

Crown Prince Of Bahrain: 'UK Too Pro-Israeli'

The GDN does not even mention the 'UK Too Pro-Israeli' comments. Sky News does not mention anything about the 'safe investor haven' stuff. And it was the same interview. 

Now, being Sky News, I would expect nothing less. They are propagandists of the worst kind, Murdochian fear-mongers that have nothing better to do than try to turn anything into a scandal. As for the GDN- well, they are not news. They have never been news. They are a bunch of press releases, some event coverage, celebrity gossip and an overflow of stupid advertising, much of which comes from Hilal Group subsidiaries. The headline reads like the pointless quasi-propaganda that it is. A better headline would be "What Crisis?"

So, unless you actually watched the interview, its unlikely you'll ever know what the Crown Prince was really talking about. Why would the GDN not talk about his admirably brave comments? Surely its newsworthy? In fact, I'd go as far as to say that his unreported comments are more newsworthy - particularly from a local viewpoint - than anything else published by them in the last week (possibly even month). Are they cowardly or just stupid? I think both.