“For better or for worse, you’ve come to personify all that’s wrong with many people’s belief about the escalation of violence in sports,”. That’s what the judge told Bassel Saad after he sentenced him to at least eight years in prison on Friday for a punch that killed a
Detroit-area referee. Saad apparently has already assaulted a soccer player back in 2005 and faced a second-degree murder charge. He told the court he “was so sorry” for what happened but his apology won’t bring back referee John Bieniewicz, a happily married man and a father of two.
USA today are saying that he could face deportation for what he did. All I know is that he’s a disgrace to sports and to Lebanese in the US.
Hi Nagib,
I have a few comments on your posts in general,
starting with this one, what kind of a “story” is this for you to cover?
Is it just because it is a Lebanese-American that you think it is worth publishing?
And furthermore, let’s say that you found something interesting in the fact that the dude’s half Lebanese and that you think he’s a disgrace to Lebanese in the US, so what?
The story means horse shit for me, yeah a dude punched a ref and killed him, that’s sad of course, and horrible for the family, and the guy’s been sentenced to jail. He happens to be half Lebanese. Again, so what?
A disgrace to Lebanese in the US? I don’t think so. If his actions define a whole population of people, then you should start looking at events unfolding around the world a little bit differently.
I think you need to revisit how you approach postings and what kind of posts you end up sharing on your blog.
You barely have any input in your posts, except for a few number of them, the rest is basically a headline or some caption, and then a photo, and that’s it. your job is done.
I really think you need to ante up the writing a little bit because this is becoming ridiculous. You can simply post a photo with the caption on Facebook. No need for the blog in your case.
A blog is meant to convey an opinion, hold something substantial behind it, not be an imitation of a Facebook page for viral content.
I mean, what do you have to say? what’s your point? Half of your posts, if not more, are basically a one off caption that prob took you around 30 seconds to make and post. Maybe you need to reconsider this. Because to be honest I find no purpose in visiting your blog anymore, and everytime I see you posting something new, I like to check it out of curiosity to see what you’ve done, and it’s always the same, a few words and a video, or a photo, or a link.
So if you’re doing all of this to feed your ads and send traffic back to the blog, I say that’s a cheap shot. Either write something worthy or quit the stupid posts that mean little to anybody, give nothing to the reader other than a mere headline or a gossip story that we can read on a proper news platforms.
Maybe you should just call yourself a news aggregator then, because lately, that’s all you do.
Thanks for understanding.
Hi Marwan,
I thank you for your feedback as it’s much appreciated. The points you have raised are valid and I’ve been receiving different takes on the short posts with a small caption and some of the posts. A lot of the blog’s readers like it because the posts are short and straight forward and don’t require a lot of reading, others love it because it’s a mixture of interesting stories, nice reviews, funny takes on this and my opinion on certain topics while some people prefer that I avoid these brief posts and stick to long articles.
Blogging is a learning process and I’m always keen on hearing comments and critics to see how things can improve. The blog so far has been a mixture of posts that include reviews, opinions on social matters, funny stories or videos, promoting NGOs or awareness on certain topics and news related to Lebanese here or abroad that I find worth sharing.
Being a sports enthusiast, It pisses me off to read about fights taking place in football or basketball games in Lebanon and I’ve expressed that in previous posts, and given that he’s a Lebanese in a US area where many Lebanese live, I thought it was worth sharing. Another aspect I was interested in was the fact that he may be deported as mentioned which is a wrong thing to do in my opinion as he won’t be punished for what he did here.
If I needed stories to send traffic to my blog, there are tons of stories that I could have shared but refuse to. I didn’t share a thing about Mia Khalifa because I didn’t think it was worth it and didn’t want traffic out of a porn star. In fact, there are many topics that I’ve avoided out of principle even though they provide easy traffic.
In all cases, thank you for your point of view and I will take it into consideration for future posts. I’ve already done some changes since the beginning of this year and I will introduce some others in the weeks to come.
By the way even short posts do take a lot of time with me as I read all articles related to that story and make sure of every word I have to say on it, so it’s not just a 30 seconds thing even if it seems so 🙂
Thanks again for the long and constructive comment.
Hey Marwan – where exactly did you get the “half Lebanese” part of your statement? Because he was classified a Lebanese-American? Well, here’s a newsflash for you . . . the dude was born in Lebanon to Lebanense parents.
Oh and look at that . . . he faces deportation BACK to Lebanon. So if you could care less about him because he’s currently in the States, guess what, he may very well be on his way back to Lebanon where (if you’re in Lebanon) could become YOUR problem. Especially if he decided to play soccer . . . hope YOU don’t have friends or family who could potentially face him on the field.
i think this is blogging since the blogger explains a lot in a lot of posts ,true that some posts come with only a caption but a lot no,but i’m still not a fan of liveLoveBeirut :p :p,thry kind of overmarket Leb,i know they need to in this bad economy too but still leb is not what it seems to be in these pics
why do people always criticize this blog and blogger? he can express himself any way he wants and does not need anyone telling him how to write or what to say. Its his blog, hes entitled to post anything he likes be it short long stupid smart objective subjective…isnt that the point of blogging? its his platform he can do whatever he wants and if you dont like it just dont read it.