did the media get suckered when the u.s. went on this media trip, and then the fawning profiles of the new crown pri e prince, and were we all fooled? i think that when the crown prince took over and started talking about wanting to bring reform, it was legitimate for the media and for others to, you know, to give it a chance and see what happened. we at the washington post haven t lost our focus on the bad things that have been happening in saudi arabia long before jamal s disappearance, including things like the imprisonment and the lashing of ryief badawi who was trying to express himself, and the kidnapping of the lebanese prime minister, and the imprisonment of women activists advocating for the right to drive.