Yeah, did anyone else notice a disturbing prison-camp-slum vibe to the bachelor accomodation debate? first they can't live in town. . . but oh look. we've built you accomodation. far far away. Next, they're going to build them recreation facilities so they enver have to come into the city and we never have to see them. . . and then they mention 'added security' out there. . . hmmmmmmm. troubling.
And about the reporting: when i first moved here we did actually have to send to a censorship board before we published. Then the licensing changed, and we just had to get by our Qatari owner, who was weirdly stricter than censorship. And somewhere, after four years of this, you just internalize it: where you naturally change the word champagne to 'bubbly' and follow any critical commentary about Qatar or Qatari's with a disclaimer, a 'oh but that's an anomoly or here's this other really lovely thing they're doing'. And suddenly you don't need censorship anymore: you've become your own censorship board.
I think the first step to getting engaging, open reporting would to let someone just say the word wine. Or publish a photo of the Miss Piggy muppet. Baby steps folks, baby steps: if the local population can't handle even these innocuous things, how are we every going to be able to actually talk about the things in Qatar that disturb us?
Yeah, did anyone else notice a disturbing prison-camp-slum vibe to the bachelor accomodation debate? first they can't live in town. . . but oh look. we've built you accomodation. far far away. Next, they're going to build them recreation facilities so they enver have to come into the city and we never have to see them. . . and then they mention 'added security' out there. . . hmmmmmmm. troubling.
And about the reporting: when i first moved here we did actually have to send to a censorship board before we published. Then the licensing changed, and we just had to get by our Qatari owner, who was weirdly stricter than censorship. And somewhere, after four years of this, you just internalize it: where you naturally change the word champagne to 'bubbly' and follow any critical commentary about Qatar or Qatari's with a disclaimer, a 'oh but that's an anomoly or here's this other really lovely thing they're doing'. And suddenly you don't need censorship anymore: you've become your own censorship board.
I think the first step to getting engaging, open reporting would to let someone just say the word wine. Or publish a photo of the Miss Piggy muppet. Baby steps folks, baby steps: if the local population can't handle even these innocuous things, how are we every going to be able to actually talk about the things in Qatar that disturb us?