Friday, February 29, 2008
An American correspondent in the Middle East sent me this: "so LBC is starting a new show thats supposed to target youth and tackle social issues the episode they've been working on is about economic issues. they prepared a set of questions for the woman who is the economy and stockmarket expert for al arabiya. rather than asking her intelligent questions, one of them was "you sit with the kings of money, do you dream of being a queen?" then they arranged to interview a poor man who works with expensive jewelry. one of the questions they prepared to ask him was 'how much does it cost to say 'i love you''"