Bribes from Al-e Khalifa Behind Media Silence over Bahrain Events

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Sheikh Ali Salman said the regime is maintaining a media monopoly and gives kickbacks to the mass media to remain silent about the country’s events, Swat Al-Manama website reported. He added that the government-based media have failed to convince the nations about the developments in Bahrain. Salman said the world public opinion recognizes that the people of Bahrain are demanding democracy but they regime denies them their basic rights by carrying out a crackdown with the help of foreign forces. According to the secretary general of Al-Wifaq National-Islamic Society, the Bahraini regime tries to misrepresent the country’s revolution in different ways such as banning the activities of independent media. He referred to the case of CNN reporter who had prepared a report about Bahrain and was banned from airing it, saying that the reporter revealed that Al-e Khalifa has bribes CNN to manipulate its reports about Bahrain. Salman underlined that in the current era, which is the age of new mass media, the truth will spread and reveal lies.End item/ 149