Stupid media award

When it comes to Western media awards that deal with the Middle East, there is always such ignorance about the Middle East and its media. An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian) people, anti-Palestinian (people), for example is treated as a "liberal" newspaper because it once was fakely liberal more than 4 decades ago. Look at this silly award: A Zionist journalist who once allegedly snuck into Lebanon under a non-Israeli passport to broadcast for Israeli TV from Lebanon. And notice that this official site said that Elaph received "a special mention" while Elaph said that in fact it received the journalism award for the year 2009. Of course, lying is not new to Elaph. I dont like to link to this website, but I will today: you don't need to know Arabic to know why I call it the sleaze Saudi-Zionist website. Look at the pictures to the left: that is how the site lured readers in order to peddle its message of friendship with Israel and American occupation in the Middle East. And like any Saudi propaganda outlet: it calls for freedom of women and media in Iran, but supports the kingdom of horrors in Saudi Arabia, and blames Saudi women for their oppression, as pro-Saudi "liberal" columnist, Shakir Nabulsi did a few weeks ago. But what do these Western organizations know about Arab media? This is like when David Ignatious of the Washington Post referred to Al-Arabiyya TV (the private station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) as "professional". Why? Because he said that the director-general of the station, `Abdur-Rahman Ar-Rashid, a veteran of Saudi propaganda outlets, told him so.