Olive--Don't you think the local press here covers the happy side enough already (never a frowning local face in the Gulf Times)? A lot of people (expats and Qataris) are not happy with the direction of the country, but it is hardly going to be covered locally is it? A little balance is always good.

Thanks for the link, bleu. Maybe Saffarini was quoted out of context, but then maybe he spoke too candidly and now regrets it. It does not matter much anyway, because there is no denying that his comments and those of the Qataris (correctly quoted or not) reflect how a significant number of expats and Qataris privately feel.