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Arab Media Systems e book

3 Mar 2021

In this system, the ruling Al-Khalifa family monopolizes the country’s material resources so that the institutions of state, including the media, function to prevent the occurrence of regime change which would otherwise alter the disbursement of this wealth to a broader segment of the population, most of whom have historically been Shi’a. [...] During the election of newly formed labor committees in the 1970s and 1980s, the government instructed the media to keep coverage of the elections to a minimum. [...] Bahrain 153 of the Prime Minister and other elements of the royal court indicated the extent of the Al-Khalifas’ overreach in media affairs. [...] After the reforms of 2001, the government attempted to create the illusion of political distance from the media, turning the Ministry of Information into the Information Affairs Authority (IAA). [...] The chairman of the board of directors is a member of the ruling family, while the board also includes a major general from the Ministry of the Interior.

Authors

Marc Owen Jones

Published in
United Kingdom