The Media on Lebanon: Europe cares, the U.S. doesn’t.
Writing by abuhatem on Saturday, 24 of November , 2007 at 3:11 am
Robert Fisk, Middle East expert and columnist for the British daily, The Independent, is reporting from Beirut today. The story is extremely insightful and a very educated piece. I mean a country in the Middle East without a President is a pretty big deal, right?
France News 24, the French English-language international broadcasting network, has Lebanon as its top story. The BBC is covering Lebanon’s crisis, as well as the British daily’s The Guardian and The Times of London - who both carry the story as their top headline.
However, moving back to our shores, the story is much different. CNN has barely covered the story, although it does have a piece on its website. The New York Times has the most pathetic half-page article describing the situation, which cannot even be found on the front page of its website.
The only good article about the situation in Lebanon today, on U.S. soil, comes from The Washington Post which has a very well written, detailed, and lengthy article by their Middle East reporter Anthony Shadid, who also wrote the best American piece on the situation yesterday.
Why all the silence in the American media on the matter? Well, the corporate media wants to cover that which makes money, and in a free-market, the consumers in the United States want to hear more about Brittney Spear’s kids than the Lebanese elections. Understandable, but also sad…
Category: Lebanese Politics, The media
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