Dubai's Gulf News coming to town?
Rumour has it that Dubai’s Gulf News (not to be confused with Bahrain’s Gulf Daily News) will be taking over Bahrain Tribune, the country's distant second English daily which has always suffered from negligible readership, dearth of content, and financial losses.
The move, if true, is bound to shake the locally dominant Gulf Daily News, which never faced any real challenge so far. Gulf News ( again not to be confused with GDN) is considered one of the better English newspapers in the Gulf.
On the Arabic side, two new Arabic dailies are slated to appear in the coming months:
Al- Waqt – published by Ibrahim Bashmi, and Alwatan – under Ghassan
Al-Shehabi and Mohamed Al-Banki. These will bring to 7, the no of dailies on this island. But:
سبع جرايد والخبر ضايع؟
posted by MR @ 5:34 PM
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7 Comments:
welcome to the fray!
Thanks. Appreciate it.
i love the last line..
what a waste of trees ;)
Dear MR
newspapers come and go, but the real issue is that we should find freedom of expression and freedom of the press on this island.
SBG, it truely is a waste of trees.
AS
P.S.
Welcome to the blogosphere, I love the increasing number of bahraini blogs ... it makes me proud. \
I'll stick around
AS
SBG, soulsearch,
Thanks for passing by.
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