In the year 2022, two influential figures in the Bahraini authorities' media, known for their involvement in incitement, sectarian disdain, and attacking and demonizing the opposition, passed away.

Up until the Peninsula Shield forces entered Bahrain on the evening of March 14, 2011, Saeed Al-Hamad was just an ordinary journalist and essayist. His job was to wait for the articles of the "Al-Ayyam" newspaper writers to reach him by fax or email, send them to the directing department and wait for them.