I am constantly fascinated by inaccuracies, prejudice and general ignorance of writers working for Gulf Times (and, believe me, Penninsula and that other one are not much better).

Reading Gulf Times provides for almost daily amusement, and I’m not talking cartoons here… Misspellings, wrongly interpreted news, you just name it.

In my company, from time to time we have these press conferences announcing new products. Every time we bother to write full detailed press release, and include the word file and images on the CD. Not one time, and let me repeat NOT ONE TIME did they manage to print the article without misspelling executives names, writing the name of the Company or the product wrong, on generally completely convey the message of the conference badly – missing the point altogether or making one up completely. This has became a source of amusement to us in the Company – after having the press conference, buying the newspapers the next day and laughing at the stupidities.

Most recent example: today’s front page. There’s an article about Qatar installing free WiFi in one of the parks. There are photos, everything. Wireless Internet. WireLESS, get it?  Title of the article: “DOHA PARK GETS WIRED”.

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