Framing tragedy, post Beirut/Paris coverage
I spoke to Al Jazeera program The Stream this week during a special about how Beirut and Paris…
New York Times sells Israel’s next war
How hard is it for the Israeli military to launch an unprovoked war with its neighbor by casting…
The Washington Post changes terrible headline
The headline above was published this morning by The Washington Post at 11:05 AM as seen in…
Is Miss Lebanon hurting MidEast peace?
I’ve tried to avoid reading about this story until I was asked to talk about it tonight on…
Split-screen mourning: Paris and Tripoli so far apart
Local broadcaster LBC chose to air a split-screen live shot today of the Charlie Hebdo rally in Paris…
Worst NY Times lead paragraph ever
The New York Times logo In journalism schools across America, students are often instructed to read and purchase…
Israeli sources outweigh Hamas 12 to 1 on school shelling
Source: The Washington Post By now much of the world has heard about at least 16 Palestinians killed…
Shootings today in Lebanon and the US
By now, much of the world knows there has been a gun battle in Lebanon. The shooting, which…
Update: Daily Beast removes “worst countries to visit” article
After an uproar from critics, The Daily Beast has removed an article that labeled Lebanon and four other…
“The Lebanese” problem of The New York Times
There is an important article in yesterday’s New York Times, where aid agencies tell the paper the Lebanese…