Some British media organisations are trying to manipulate the news in an attempt to tarnish the reputation of the Gulf States and sell a message of crisis and chaos during the Iran attacks.
They are even willing to reward journalists working in the region to play along with the industry’s dark agenda by paying them to create controversy, even anonymously.
Any truthful articles penned by reporters who have experienced the past two weeks and shone a more positive message are being targeted in a desperate effort to ridicule their work.
The GDN has seen correspondence from one major British publisher that highlights the dirty tricks that are being played and the money being offered to concoct a narrative they seem determined to sell to readers and online followers.
Feature writer Isabel Oakeshott had two articles published in the UK’s Spectator and The Telegraph about her experiences after the UAE was targeted, like Bahrain, by incoming Iranian missiles and drones.
One piece was headlined: ‘I love Dubai. Get over it’ and she wrote: ‘I am in Dubai where we are doing our best to keep calm and carry on. Granted, the sudden instruction to ‘seek immediate shelter’ in the early hours of Sunday morning was unnerving, but with the exception of excitable ‘influencers’, few people are cowering in their basements’.
It was not the sort of picture some newspaper groups wanted to portray, even if it happened to be true.
