To paint a better picture of the Kingdom, Riyadh has been paying media across the globe as well as setting plans to ban reporters critical of the government from working in the country, Reporters Without Borders concluded after digging into WikiLeaks.
The so called ‘Saudi Cables’, revealed by the whistleblowing website, were used by Reporters Without Borders to give a better insight at the lengths the Saudi authorities are willing to go to in order to try to present a more positive image of the country abroad.
The non-governmental organization cites numerous examples dated from 2010 until 2015 including Saudi Arabia looking to fund media publications from around the globe – from Iran to Senegal.
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The Saudi regime has also targeted journalists, the report finds. The country’s embassy in Berlin paid five German reporters at least €7,500 per month in order to write positive articles about Saudi Arabia every six months. This came in response to an alleged campaign by the Israeli embassy in Berlin cooperating with German media publications to write against Arab countries.
http://rt.com/news/272713-saudi-media-freedom-propoganda/
The so called ‘Saudi Cables’, revealed by the whistleblowing website, were used by Reporters Without Borders to give a better insight at the lengths the Saudi authorities are willing to go to in order to try to present a more positive image of the country abroad.
The non-governmental organization cites numerous examples dated from 2010 until 2015 including Saudi Arabia looking to fund media publications from around the globe – from Iran to Senegal.
(...)
The Saudi regime has also targeted journalists, the report finds. The country’s embassy in Berlin paid five German reporters at least €7,500 per month in order to write positive articles about Saudi Arabia every six months. This came in response to an alleged campaign by the Israeli embassy in Berlin cooperating with German media publications to write against Arab countries.
http://rt.com/news/272713-saudi-media-freedom-propoganda/