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…

Amid Tony Blair’s excoriation, I thought I’d dig up something from 1914 by H.L.Mencken. It puts, rather more eloquently than some commentators, the case for the media.