{"id":21394,"date":"2012-08-03T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T06:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=21394"},"modified":"2012-08-03T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T06:12:24","slug":"whatever-it-was-it-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/middle-east-media-analysis\/middle-east-television-analysis\/whatever-it-was-it-never-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"MidEast Journalism: Whatever it Was, It Never Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/08\/whatever-it-was-it-never-happened\/recycled-newspaper-crafts-1-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21395\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21395\" title=\"recycled-newspaper-crafts-1 (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/recycled-newspaper-crafts-1-1-634x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/recycled-newspaper-crafts-1-1-634x334.jpg 634w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/recycled-newspaper-crafts-1-1-570x300.jpg 570w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/recycled-newspaper-crafts-1-1.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goodness! There are all sorts of stories being reported in Saudi media today that involve retractions, corrections, and allegations that \u201cIt never happened!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First off, the Saudi woman reported to have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/xrdarabia.org\/2012\/07\/28\/didnt-expect-this\/\">converted<\/a>\u00a0to Christianity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudigazette.com.sa\/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=20120801131748\">Alleged Saudi convert claims she is still Muslim<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the story of the Saudi woman who allegedly sought Israeli citizenship:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudigazette.com.sa\/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=20120801131746\">I\u2019m Palestinian, not Saudi, asserts Ala Khalaf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a Palestinian, she says, obtaining Israeli citizenship was the only way she could keep her family together. But she had never claimed to be Saudi.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, there\u2019s Abdulrahman Al-Atawi, a Saudi citizen held in an Israeli jail for six years after inadvertently crossing into Israel in the Sinai. Press reports that he, too, has sought Israeli asylum are false, he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudigazette.com.sa\/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=20120801131749\">\u2018Zionists spread asylum rumors about me,\u2019 says Al-Atawi<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These stories serve as a useful reminder: <em>Be very skeptical about any reporting coming out of the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CROSSROADS ARABIA: These stories serve as a useful reminder: Be very skeptical about any reporting coming out of the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":21395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,89,81,65],"tags":[18311,100,191,1566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}