I just found out that some guy named Robert Satloff has a program on Al-Hurra TV. Al-Hurra being an Arabic-language TV, Satloff actually does his program in Arabic, a language it seems he has barely mastered. No really, the guy thinks he can get away with reading like a ten year old from a teleprompter? [...]
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Is he for real?
Posted in Journalism, tagged Al-Hurra, United States on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Broadcasting ignorance!
Posted in Journalism, tagged Arab World, Islam on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A fair share of the Arab airwaves today are dominated by quacks and pseudo-scientists selling their bogus theories on a whole host of things. Here is a good example from a television program talking about the importance of Mecca. When I first saw this, I did not know whether to laugh or cry. I just [...]
BBC is a joke!!!
Posted in Journalism, tagged Israel on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a joke the BBC is. In an article about the recent dismissal by Israeli authorities of the case against police officers who killed 13 protesters, the BBC online says:
“Arabs make up nearly a fifth of Israel’s population. They have full rights under law, but often complain of discrimination.”
There is ample indepdent evidence showing that [...]
More Arabs poses a "problem"
Posted in Journalism, tagged Israel, Jewish-Arab Relations, Palestine on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is what the BBC had to say in a recent article on Israel’s policy of granting citizenship to all Jews who apply:
“Analysts say facilitating immigration of the larger number of Jews to Israel is a key factor in countering the demographic challenge posed by the growing Palestinian Arab population in Israel and the Israeli-occupied [...]
What does "Westernized" even mean?
Posted in Journalism, tagged Lebanese, Lebanon, Middle East, Western on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Its very common for the Western journalists to talk about “Westernized” Lebanese. It seems, however, that with this term they are identifying only one part of what is the West, those things that are typically middle class. In reality they are only identifying those middle class characteristics found across the globe in this globalized world. [...]
Yellow journalism
Posted in Journalism on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the brave new world of yellow journalism of the 21st century. Reading the caption on Al-Akhbar’s web site on a picture from the tragic accident that took the lives of a Lebanese family yesterday you would think Lebanon has suffered another invasion. The newspaper even describes the family as “fuel for another mass [...]
Lebanese Optimism
Posted in Culture, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Journalism, Politics, Society on February 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
In this blog I plan to write about why and how I think Lebanon’s future is a bright one. We are a resilient nation, though we have many problems. We are also a very determined nation and I think we will eventually find our way out of the crisis we are in. Once out, we [...]
