Gen-pet scandal in the Middle East, is the Arab traditional media so messed up?
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It seems that someone in the Arab media messed up big time and fell with the Genpet hoax. You can read more about the story here http://www.360east.com/?p=1063 I have found a few sources that published the story. This is a shot of the Lebanese Al Hayat newspaper, published on the 19th of July. It was followed by two other publications Al Oum magazine (Lebanese) and AlGhad newspaper (Jordanian)
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It is scary indeed, the thing is i don’t think anyone is even apologizing!
As for the journalists, i think most of them in the region cant even google!
Pathetic, and very scary! Journalism has lost respect for itself. Background check on a story is non existent as this fiasco shows. But this is a terrible trend that’s escalating in Arab journalism – they don’t seem to feel a sense of responsibility and don’t realize the disaster they cause with the psyche of readers when they print smtg like this and feed into the confusion. It’s infuriating actually.
The journalists and media that fell for this hoax are idiots! What does it take to google smtg before you distribute it?! ugh!