Campaign Middle East Magazine - July 12, 2015

In this issue

Many years ago, the notion of advertising and news being
connected in any way would have been seen as an affront
to journalistic traditions. Advertising was, at best, a vaguely
irritating commercial interruption in the midst of an
anticipated event – namely, the evening news bulletin, the
Top Of the Pops radio rundown or the columns of a daily
broadsheet. News, for its part, was the broadsword of justice
and freedom of speech that could bring down US
presidents and enlist legions of do-gooders to defend its
sacrosanct mission. That is, of course, unless you lived in
the kind of country run by someone called Kim......