Decline of the Economist's Middle East coverage

You know that the Economist's Middle East coverage is declining when its coverage becomes indistinguishable from the coverage of all other mainstream media.  Look at this dumb statement: "while tradition immunises Arab heads of state from public ridicule."  Tradition immunises Arab heads of state?  Whenever Arabs have a chance, they ridicule heads of state more than in Western countries.  Look at the public ridicule of Morsi in Egypt or Sulayman in Lebanon.  Even in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait people are going to jail for mocking heads of state. It is not the tradition that immunises heads of state: it is the strict laws, you brilliant correspondent of the Economist.