Saturday, June 06, 2009

Lebanese overkill coverage

As soon as the polls were opened at 9:00PM my time, Lebanese TV coverage started with a vengeance. Correspondents (including weather people) were sent to every corner of the country: they are providing detailed descriptions of cars moving, and people walking, and potato slicing, etc. New TV is the only station in Lebanon which employs correspondents whose political affiliations are unknown. LBC TV: you can guess the political sympathies of the correspondents as soon as they open their mouths, just like Hariri Future TV or Al-Manar TV.