Losing Faith in Newspaper reporting

It may sound as a small thing but if newspaper can’t fact check their reporting who will ?

today i was reading AlQabas newspaper and read a report about Freedom in Bahrain , today part was about internet freedom and i read this

مدونات المجهولين
الضغط الذي يتعرض له المدونون في البحرين وخشيتهم من المساءلة والاعتقال جعلهم يكتفون باطلاق مدوناتهم بوحي مستعار نقتص من مدونة الزميلة باسمة القصاب بعضا من هذه الاسماء الاثيرية التي لا تعني لاحد من هواة التقارير شيئا : المسكوت عنه، صوت المواطن، مدخنة الرياش، حشد بلا وجه، مداس آية الله، سراديب الصمت، مارون الراس، درب الفراشات، صندقة الملا، طاحونة الادرج، بحرين فوكس، فوبيا، عرين محمود، زرنوق بحراني، جدل، شقيقي 72، ان كنت ذا راي، بحرانية، فوضى، السواد الاعظم، ازاميل، تأملات، تراتيل الانتظار، ارض دلمون او ما تبقى من اوال، اللامنتمي، جدار مخطط، مزاجية، الاميرة، قصر الامبراطور، هذيان، هوامل، اثر الفراشة،، واكثر من هذا العدد لا نعرفه.
هذه الاسماء اختفت لانها غير محمية ولانه لا يوجد قانون يؤمنها، وحتى قانون الصحافة لا يتدخل في شؤون المدونين

Translation

unknown Bloggers
The pressure that blogger in bahrain face and they fear that they will questioned and arrested made them start their blogs
with nicknames and from the blog of basma al qasab we pick up some of these names : ……… ( bunch of names )
Mahmood Den
and more of these who we don’t know
these names have disappeared because they are not protected and there is no law to save it , even the press law does’nt interfere with them

So the guy couldn’t fact check anything ? just list few blogs and thats it ?
without even checking the rest of the names i know Mahmood’s Den , its the oldest Bahrani Blog and most famous , he was just arrested in bahrain ( so much for not interfering )

Now it maybe a Small Fact , but when the reporter can’t even Fact check a small thing like that ( which would take him what ? 10-20 minute , as he listed them off a blog already so he has the links ) and whats with disappeared ? i’m sure if i check the list i would find most of them still online and posting , or he just add stuff for dramatic effect ? how can i belive anything that reporter or Alqabas post now that a small thing and they can’t get right ?

More examples
Late news
Bad reporting ?
Stealing Pictures ?

Oh and one great line from the article ( show you how much he knows of internet )

وحتى الانترنت بالغ السرعة فلا يناهز 15 غيغا
وهذا مؤشر على ان ثمة تعمدا في حصر مجال الانترنت على الغالبية العظم
Even high speed internet does not go over 15 Gb which is an indicator that they want to limit the internet for all

OH MY GOD , 15 Gb is limiting !! i want to know what the hell was he smoking !

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