Whitewashing Mandela
Image: Daily Hearld You probably won’t see a lot of this picture or others in non-stop TV coverage of…
Spies you can trust
Don’t you love American television? Particularly entertaining from Beirut.
If these walls could talk
Oops, looks like they already do. This is a screenshot from a recent OTV interview with former security…
LBC features Beirut Report, sets record straight on Nasrallah
In the report above, LBC documented my criticism of a blatantly sectarian New York Times headline and its…
New York Times changes sectarian headline
That’s today’s headline (above), changed as a direct result of this post I wrote about yesterday’s sectarian headline…
Syrian soaps move to Beirut
From the set of Wiladi Mi Khasri (Pregnant from the Waist) one of several major Syrian productions being shot…
Access to Qusair
While many news outlets have struggled to get crews on the ground in Syria, Lebanon-based networks like Al…
Tragedy and Patriotism
The American flag has figured prominently in the coverage of the murderous Boston explosions. Similar to the September…
Packaging fear, broadcasting rage
“Have you heard the news,” a passenger asked the driver last night after he boarded a shared taxi…