Divided media



If you want to know what a divided media really looks like, forget the liberal/conservative rows and watch the clip above. Faisal Abbas from Asharq Alawsat has the full story. You’ll hear an open mike incident from the Lebanon’s National Broadcast Network, which is ‘close’ politically to pro-Syrian House Speaker Nabih Berri.

Over pictures of the bombing that killed anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido, his son, and eight other people, presenter Sawsan Darwich is heard saying: “What took them so long [to kill him]?

A man’s voice tells her not to gloat.

“We are not, but we’ve had enough of them. Only Fatfat [A reference to anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister Ahmed Fatfat] is left.”

Darwich was fired for the incident…

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