From Samir `Atallah to King Fahd's Brother-in-Law: with Prostration

Samir `Atallah is not a personal name: he is a model of journalistic behavior in the Arab world. He is a Lebanese journalist who set the lowest standard of prostration before the oil princes of Arabia. In this article in the mouthpiece of Prince Salman (Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat), he calls on Al-Arabiyyah TV to renew his consulting contract with the network. In this article in An-Nahar (partly owned by Prince Al-Walid), he pays tribute to the Hariri family but also manages to remind Walid Al-Ibrahim (owner of Al-Arabiyya) that his contract with the network was not renewed. There is no low for Samir `Atallah: but unfortunately, he is the name of school of journalism in Lebanon and the Arab world although its "stars" are largely Lebanese.