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Monday, November 02, 2009
Rami Al-Amin
This is a Lebanese reporter for New TV. He writes in An-Nahar "cultural"--and An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Palestinian (people), anti-Syrian (people) is to culture is what Sa`d Hariri is to intellect- supplement and is a TV reporter. He is a decent writer but his TV delivery is unimaginative and monotonous--like Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In An-Nahar, he is a pro-March 14, intensely so. On New TV, he is a progressive who is critical of March 14. I kid you not, but this political shiftiness and opportunism is quite familiar in Lebanese media. Yesterday, he did a report on Karl Marx in light of the crisis of capitalism. In addition to mispronouncing every word and name related to the topic, he misidentified the views of Fukuyama and Derrida.