Like most Lebanese, I’m hungry for answers about the surge in kidnappings, tribal violence deadly “personal disputes” and the raging battlefields of Tripoli. Finally Lebanon’s fall TV season has begun, and after a near total absence during the last two weeks of chaos, new episodes of investigative magazine news programs like Al Nashra on leading channel Al Jadeed are now airing.
So which crisis d’jour have they chosen to cover?
The anti-rape penis trap, of course:
With some very graphic graphics that were played repeatedly:
The show also discussed a new spoof advertisement about Lebanese tourism. No mention of any of that other stuff that’s been happening lately.