Seeing Behind “Reform” Facade, UK Media Regulator Bans Saudi Ad
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Since rising to power in mid-2017, MBS has shown that, despite his best efforts to lay on the PR charm, he is hardly the reformer he has promoted himself to be. Indeed, he has strewn repression and brutality in his wake, domestically and outside Saudi borders.
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May looks to the media as she greets Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman outside 10 Downing Street in London, March 7, 2018. Alastair Grant | AP
By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb
LONDON — Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s media regulator, ruled on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia had broken British broadcasting law by running television advertisements aimed at promoting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and his so-called “reform” agenda.
Ofcom’s ruling focused on a sin...