Christina sent me this: "
The Guardian is making a big deal of obtaining this 'interview'
with a 'captured Shabiha member', flagging it up gleefully on its front
page:
Given that we have no clue a) who this man is
(he may well be a 'rebel' posing as a solider) and b) whether this
interview was obtained under extreme duress, its release is surely
deeply troubling from the press ethics point of view. After all, Press
TV lost its UK licence for broadcasting an interview obtained under
duress (some of us doubted if that was the real reason, but that's
another story).
All part and parcel of the dramatic decline in the Guardians' journalistic standards.
In
the meantime, the once excellent Brian Whitaker is offering us links to
gossipy stories about an 'Arab prince' (no nationality needed - he's
just a generic 'Arab') from the notorious Murdoch owned tabloid, The
Sun:
The Guardian's Middle East 'coverage' is now
interesting not for what it can tell you about the Middle East, but for
what it can tell you about 'elite' thinking in the UK.
Sad.".
