I just discovered that although Al-Hayat prints a local edition through Al-Seyassah, if you go to any newsstand on any day you will NOT find that day's edition, only the previous day's. Even subscribers now get their copies a day late.
A quick call to the Al-Hayat subscription office was in order, and guess what? I was told that a little over a week ago Al-Hayat printed some story that someone higher up didn't like, so now every morning a copy of Al-Hayat is sent to the Ministry of Misinformation for review before it's released to subscribers and newsstands!!
And with the customary "speed and efficiency" of the ministry censors, by the time they're done scouring the paper for any offensive articles, the delivery vans will have called it a day and the editions reach their destinations with the next delivery run.
Don't believe me? Go see for yourselves! I'm just surprised that Al-Hayat and the other papers haven't raised a big stink over this..
Good thing they upgraded their website
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