Resume normal programing

byHabib Battah
May 27, 2008

After weeks of broadcasting war-mongering propaganda, Lebanese television stations have resumed their usual diet of music videos, soap operas and cure-all skin cream infomercials. Tasteless as he may seem, credit-card friendly “Dr. Kimaz” (above) is a welcome break from the vilification campaigns that filled the airwaves earlier this month, often supporting the physical battles that went on in the streets of Beirut.

To read more about the media’s use as weapon during the conflict, see this article I wrote today for news website Menassat.

Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

2 comments

Behehsti says:

May 30, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Hi! Such a cool blogger! I am so glad to be familiar with this blog. Actually I am passing my master in Lebanon but I have a little bit journalism activities! I have a weblog about Lebanon but that is based on Persian language. However I hope you are fine and everything is going well with you.

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Habib Battah says:

May 30, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Thank you Behehsti, your comments are much appreciated. Sounds like you have an interesting site, too bad I can’t read farsi. What kind of journalism are you doing?

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