Huffington Post On How Lebanese Journalists Handle Rumors

Journalists all over the world, not just in Lebanon, are handling rumors in a much worse fashion than 10 or 20 years ago. Speaking of Lebanon, there isn't one single source I can follow blindly, and there are more and more competing news portals and websites that just want to get more hits by publishing unreliable information and unfounded news. Most of them depend on rumors and gossip which is quite sad. Take for example…

How To Get More Hits To Your Story: Add صورة في الداخل or بالصورة or فيديو

I usually add Video or In Pictures to my title when I actually have something to show the readers, but I've been noticing that a lot of Lebanese news portals are adding randomly these terms to the title just to get more hits. Most of the time, the story doesn't even have a picture or video or like in the example above, the picture is useless. I mean seriously what the hell is that image?…
Critiques

Names Of The 10 Lebanese Army Martyrs From The Arsal Fighting

11 years ago
The Lebanese Army has unfortunately lost 10 of its brave soldiers while fighting Islamists in Arsal. The names as published on the Lebanese Army’s official website are as shown below. You can find a resume ...
Critiques

Can We Stop The Cheesy Army Songs And Cheesy Support?

11 years ago
I am all for supporting the Lebanese Army, but someone needs to stop these cheesy and lame Lebanese Army songs being played on TVs. Moreover, Al Jadeed’s TV anchor wore the army uniform yesterday as ...
Critiques

Killing Children Is Wrong: Randomly Sharing Gruesome Pictures Of Dead Children On Facebook And Twitter Is Also Wrong

11 years ago
Gaza Children – Picture via NJBRepository There’s no arguing that killing children is wrong and that Israel is committing horrendous war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza, but I don’t understand how sharing pictures ...
Critiques

A Not So Happy Lebanese Army Day After All

11 years ago
At least 8 army soldiers were killed yesterday after Syrian gunmen attacked their checkpoints in Arssal. The Lebanese army quickly regained control of the checkpoints and pushed back the gunmen but the situation is still ...
Events

Eat Out for Life Campaign: Eat Out Until August 7th And Help The CCCL

11 years ago
From the first till the 7th August, if you eat out at any of the restaurants below, you will be contributing to the treatment of a sick child at the CCCL. There are a lot ...
Critiques

We Should All Go To Watch Mashrou’ Leila In Zouk Mikael Tomorrow Night

11 years ago
Picture taken by Ralph Haddad I was never a big fan of Mashrou’ Leila and I got really pissed off when they cancelled their opening act for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but I totally ...
Beirut

Drunk Woman Roaming Beirut Streets

11 years ago
[YouTube] I really don’t understand the Lebanese people anymore. First they film and make fun of a topless (mentally ill?) woman and now they harass a drunk girl walking in the middle of the highway ...
Critiques

Lebanese Basketball Teams Are Pushing For Three Foreign Players Next Season

11 years ago
I’ve heard that the majority of basketball teams in Lebanon, with the exception of Riyadi, are asking the federation to allow three foreign players next season, specially after Ismail Ahmad got the Lebanese nationality. I ...
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