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Western companies have not been very successful or able to push back on human rights issues, which in the kingdom, go beyond the brutal murder ofjamal khashoggi and also, you know, worthwhile elevating and mentioning the activists and women and journalists are detained also in the kingdom. but the market is hugely appealing. there is a very young population that is looking to benefit from the social liberalisation that was granted by mohammed bin salman, so there is a domestic dynamic here to the sports—washing of the media—washing that is taking place, and the soft power projection is ver...

The big story this past week, the saudi led consortium buying into newcastle football club. areeb ullah, you're from the middle eastern eye. in all the excitable coverage about these new owners in football, there's actually been much less about something we have obviously noticed on the media show, because we're a media show, which is, in the end this is a media story in a sense. tell us what are bein and beoth and how that all plays into this. so bein sports is the qatari—backe sports broadcaster got the commercial rights to air premier league games and sporting events from around the world...

Areeb, let me bring you in because the football was mentioned, that has been the big story this past week, the saudi led consortium buying into newcastle football club. areeb ullah, you're from the middle eastern eye. in all the excitable coverage about these new owners in football, there's actually been much less about something we have obviously noticed on the media show, because we're a media show, which is, in the end this is a media story in a sense. tell us what are bein and beoth and how that all plays into this. so bein sports is the qatari—backed sports broadcaster got the commercia...

The world, i believe. and it still does get millions of readers, as does time. so, it's not — i hearwhatjim is saying. i think time used to get something like five million readers a week. it possibly gets half of that now, but it still does get, you know, in the seven figures at least. rolling stone — i guess that looking at it from an american kind of perspective, it has a huge name and it's known for being a kind of writers' magazine. so, very good luck, i think, is what we're all saying. i'm afraid that is all we have time for today but thank you very much to all my guests, to darren st...

Time for the media show. hello. the back pages have been dominating the front pages this week with the sale of newcastle united football club. but the premier league isn't the only part of british public life that the saudis are buying into. the independent and the evening standard can both trace their ownership back to the gulf kingdom. while over in the us, media giants like netflix and disney have had big investment from the saudis. so, does this affect the journalism we read or the television we watch? joining me to discuss that is vivienne walt, a correspondent for time magazine and fortu...