How Saudi Arabia Controls Its Own Media Coverage

http://viableopposition.blogspot.ca/2016/01/how-saudi-arabia-controls-its-own-media.html

With Saudi Arabia making headline news once again, I thought it was a great time to take a look at the WikiLeaks Saudi Cables release which took place relatively quietly on June 19, 2015.  Thus far, 122,619 cables of the more than half a million cables and other documents from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been released,  most of them dating between 2010 and 2015, providing us with a rather intimate look at how the Saudi Royal Family (aka the Saudi dictatorship) functions.  Because of its oil producing capabilities, despite its flagrant disregard for human rights, it continues to be regarded as a key Middle East ally by the United States, the United Kingdom and much of the rest of the western world.  These documents help us to better understand how Saudi Arabia controls its image on the world's stage, the main thrust of this posting.