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Thursday, December 02, 2010
Wikileaks and the English language press in Lebanon
It is not that the English language media are ignoring Wikileaks but in some cases they are just making things up. In Daily Star, they don't exist. In Naharnet, they refer to a French refusal to freeze the work of the Hariri tribunal when in fact in one document Chirac's adviser brings up the issue with US officials. So they lie--but that is typical of Nahar media. In NowHariri, they have a writer from the Foundation for the Defense of Likud in Israel state that the only scandal in the Wikileaks is that the US ignored advice from its Arab polygamous allies that Syria should be ignored and that the Palestinian issue should be disregarded.