Bahrain Propaganda 101: The Regime and Its US PR Firm Spin the Election

Last week we noted how the Bahraini regime and Qorvis, the US public relations company working for it, were trying to get the right "news" into international media. We now have the latest effort, a "story" summarising events of the last two days under the headline, "Strong Election Vote in Bahrain".

The article, put out through PRNewsWire and posted below, re-presents the talking points put out by Bahrain's information agency (see today's LiveBlog), but the style is markedly different from the Bahraini official statements and their display in pro-regime media, for example, in this story from Manama Press. That indicates that the "news" in this case may have been written by the PR agency.

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