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| Lebanon protests are dividing the country’s struggling media |
| 2019-12-07 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The ongoing protests in Leb have divided the country’s media along new lines and placed further stress on an already struggling industry ‐ but also offered opportunities for new platforms to emerge. "One camp supports the revolution, and the other still conveys the narrative of the ruling power," said Matthieu Karam, the head of the web journalism department at the Beirut-based French-language publication L’Orient-le Jour. This is a new dividing line in the country’s media landscape, which previously reflected the divide that emerged in 2005: between the March 14 Alliance, which opposes Syria’s interference in the country, and the pro-Syrian March 8 Alliance, made up of Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement |
| Posted by:Fred |