The last month has seen the appearance of political journalism for the first time in the United Arab Emirates.
Malaysia, almost a single-coalition democracy, allows for journalism. UAE does not.
What makes this piece of first person experience and reportage galling is the racism and colonial suppuration that oozes out of the piece.
When journalists refer to a piece of reportage as sting, it is not clear which of the three variations is being talked about
A curious phenomenon of court reporting in the United Arab Emirates is the absence of any names when the courts pronounce a verdict.
The Pope in his wisdom uses an eminently unneeded example, and the correspondent picks it up and plays it up in a manner that is likely to cause the most harm.
Why attribute such banalities to a "senior Congress leader" under conditions of confidentiality unless you are telling the reader something that is new?
The Arab press, which functions within largely totalitarian systems of governance, is displaying a curious phenomenon. It is in an activist mode.