Ramzy Baroud: *Thousands of foreign journalists, with no cultural or political connection to the Middle East, were shipped in, to replace their Arab colleagues, and to participate, willingly or otherwise, in the dirty propaganda campaigns championed by one rich Arab countries or another.*

The repression of journalists by Middle-Eastern countries is well documented, so I am confident that that claim is true. The other claim, about naive foreign journalists brought in for propaganda purposes, might be true also, but I have no independent basis to judge that point.