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This doesn’t belong here, and it really shouldn’t have been started by the owner of the website. Give it some time, I don’t want to have to go to the forum to see F1F’s political activists ranting on about the […]

One of the most prominent critics of the regime has now been arrested as well:

Bahrain has arrested a prominent human rights activist and critic of the country’s ruling family, the Interior Ministry and an […]

Sorry it was not my intention to offend, I am just tired of hearing about it. I will take your advice and ignore this thread.

Except that the situation in Bahrain is intrinsically linked to whether a race next year could.should happen. It is a single forum topic you could ignore? There are plenty of completely non-F1 topics in the […]

This an F1 site correct? I’d prefer it not to be used for ventures in journalism. As stated if you have a interest the country, go do something about it, otherwise let it be.

”you cannot predict or control the future”
Doesn’t mean it can’t be discussed, and the topic updated with developments in the country.

This should not even be a topic, unless you are trying to incite unrest, you cannot predict or control the future, nor will you do anything to resolve or enforce the situation. Let it be or be part of it.

@asanator Except that as I said, restricting media access was likely to cause more sensationalism.

Didn’t exactly look like a mass civilian uprising as we have seen over the rest of the middle east did it? More like a select few angry men lobbing molotovs at the police. I wonder how the UK police and armed […]

Excuse me if I don’t shed a tear over the fact that a herd of agenda-driven journalists were denied the ability to go to the country and write their sensationalist articles. Not that it really stopped them.

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Of course, if proper non-sports journalists had been allowed in it would have both looked like good faith by Bahrain, and those journalists might have written more balanced articles due to having experience of […]

@xbx-117 CNN, Sky News, Channel 4 and others all had journalists barred from entering the country to report on what was happening there, so I don’t see how you can say they weren’t stopped from covering it. The […]

Excuse me if I don’t shed a tear over the fact that a herd of agenda-driven journalists were denied the ability to go to the country and write their sensationalist articles. Not that it really stopped them.

Reporters Without Borders on how the Bahrain government used the race weekend to manipulate media coverage of the country and blocked journalists who wanted to report on the protests:

Journalists and bloggers […]

Channel 4′s journalists, who were deported from Bahrain after being refused permission to cover what was going in the country during the race weekend, have shown some of the footage they shot which wasn’t […]

According to Pitpass the GP2 feature race was watched by a total of 12 spectators:

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=46181

I think F1 should wash their hands of the place. It was far too political, not least because the country used F1 in a way it shouldn’t have.