Couldn't agree more. Print journalism is Qatar is terrible.
An issue of the Gulf Times consists a few pages about how everything is swell in Qatar (dignitary welcomed, 1000.2% fictitious growth rate for a company, new mobile phone offer, more maids rounded up for dating gardeners, and the latest award for best hot towels for Qatar Airways). This is followed by articles describing chaos in every region in the world lifted from real newspapers and concluded with an editorial that states the obvious without being too direct on controversial. And on Fridays we are treated with lengthy lessons on Islam (which are actually sometimes informative, if a little technical, but lifted directly from other websites).
Couldn't agree more. Print journalism is Qatar is terrible.
An issue of the Gulf Times consists a few pages about how everything is swell in Qatar (dignitary welcomed, 1000.2% fictitious growth rate for a company, new mobile phone offer, more maids rounded up for dating gardeners, and the latest award for best hot towels for Qatar Airways). This is followed by articles describing chaos in every region in the world lifted from real newspapers and concluded with an editorial that states the obvious without being too direct on controversial. And on Fridays we are treated with lengthy lessons on Islam (which are actually sometimes informative, if a little technical, but lifted directly from other websites).