{"id":402,"date":"2007-08-31T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2007\/08\/31\/lossing-faith-in-newspapers-in-kuwait\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T01:32:49","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:32:49","slug":"lossing-faith-in-newspapers-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"lossing faith in newspapers in kuwait .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this isn&#8217;t my first time writing about newspapers in Kuwait , i believe them all to be bad <\/p>\n<p>saddly everyday i see more proof of that<\/p>\n<p>So now one of the local communication companies Wataniya ( that was bought by QTell a Qatari company ) cut all ad deals with one of the local newspapers ( Alwatan ) now alwatan are angry ( its after all ads lost )  they write a big headline demanding the government to intervene to strong arm the Qatari owners , not only that but they ran online polls and some of its writiers started asking people to drop Wataniya lines in favor of the other company ( MTC ) so the Kuwaiti pride can be restored .<\/p>\n<p>Okay wait a second ! , Kuwait pride ? how is our pride hurt from one  company not running ads on one newspaper ? we have over 6 now , so if AT&#038;T didn&#8217;t run an ad on Washington post American pride is hurt ? <\/p>\n<p>Not only that , but they forgot to mention one thing , Alwatan owner is also PART OWNER IN MTC !! and he doesn&#8217;t state that on the the article they wrote .<\/p>\n<p>the<br \/>\nEditor in Chief is a member of the board in MTC <\/p>\n<p>Kuwait stock exchange information on MTC [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kse.com.kw\/PORTAL\/STOCK\/STOCK.ASPX?STK=605\">English<\/a>][<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kse.com.kw\/PORTAL\/A\/Stock\/Stock.aspx?Stk=605\">Arabic<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this isn&#8217;t my first time writing about newspapers in Kuwait , i believe them all to be bad saddly everyday i see more proof of that So now one of the local communication companies Wataniya ( that was bought by QTell a Qatari company ) cut all ad deals with one of the local newspapers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lossing faith in newspapers in kuwait ..<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2,17,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}