http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/
Ecclestone and his F1 circus have gone. The worlds press and television have moved on to their next assignment. Meanwhile in Bahrain, the protests continue and for Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa and the rest of the family clique its back to business as usual. The "International Community" resumes viewing the situation through its blind eye, the US 5th Fleet stays in its base at Juffai, and the Saudi's continue to prop up the regimes grip on the people. In the case of Bahrain, the world just does not care.
http://style.uk.msn.com/royal-baby/how-will-the-royal-baby-look-as-he-grows-up Media generated hysteria. This is too much. For the last 36 hours (thought it seems more like 36 days) there has been wall to wall news coverage, media and television comment and reporting, with Sky News taking first prize for frenzied minute by minute reporting from the Palace, the hospital, from a village somewhere in England, from the studio and anywhere else that Burley, Botting and company could stick a microphone into some obscure "celebrity's" face and ask for yet another banal quote. All this galvanising the mass hysteria of some elements of the public, (who the media would have you believe is the reaction of "the whole world",) with their flag waving, dancing, singing and cheering over what is after all, no more than a woman having a bab...
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