Two takes

Here are two very different takes on the media war in Lebanon;

Fayez al Sa'egh, the editor in chief of Althawra newspaper (Syria), shows how much he's appalled at the way the hariri media is being directed, as if by Zionist and American hands, which he thinks are very different from the 'real' direction of the hariri movement (read at your own risk, content sickening)

Another take is by The Economist, in this week's issue, you can find it here. It's taken from a general rather socio-economic perspective, but to have a clue, this is a preview:

The media-savvy opposition, advised by Beirut's top advertising firms, has been quick to grab the limelight with catchy banners, slogans and gimmicks. “They have prettier girls,” concedes a Shia village headman.

For his part, Syria's president, Bashar Assad, moans that if cameras only “zoomed out”, the scale of anti-Syrian feeling would shrink to its true size. He might do well to reflect instead on his country's own state television monopoly. For hours after Mr Hariri's murder, Syrian television blithely ran cartoons, followed by a programme on the glories of Syria's archaeological ruins.

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