Bahrain Follow-Up: The Regime's PR Mission and Formula 1 Journalist Joe Saward
See also Bahrain Special: How Regime Supporters Became The "Silent Majority" for 3 Foreign Journalists
Any analysis of the political situation in the Kingdom should acknowledge that there are strongly-held views in support of the regime's position and framing of the conflict. The point, which Joe Saward cannot or will not acknowledge, is that these do not necessarily represent the vast majority of Bahrainis. Any journalist who wants to establish the complexity of opinion across the country --- rather than taking the easy answer of "all is well except for a troublesome group manipulated by Iran" --- would have to do more than drop in for three days and take the assertions of three Bahrainis as the gospel truth for all.
But that is only part of Saward's omission, and thus reduction of the conflict to his "silent majority".