Good and bad dictatorships

"As'ad AbuKhalil, a Lebanese professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, and curator of the popular Angry Arab News Service blog, said a key trend in the region's media coverage was "the extent to which Saudi-owned media showed panic."  "They try to deflect criticisms to their own oppressive government by drawing some imaginary lines between Gulf dictatorships and other dictatorships," Mr. AbuKhalil said."