Reporting on Jordan

Finally, a lame report on Jordan in the New York Times. It carries little of the boisterous coverage of Jordan in some Jordanian media or even in Al-Quds Al-`Arabi's daily reports.  But to assess public opinion of the people, the New York Times correspondent could not find a more credible source than a former minister of the King:  "“It doesn’t suit any party in Jordan — East Bankers, West Bankers, right-wingers, left-wingers, anybody — to have the regime fall,” said Samer Tawil, a former economics minister. “Especially with what we have seen in our neighborhood as a result of the chaos that started with the Iraq war and that continued with the Arab Spring.”"