Pierre Sadiq fired: the further decline of An-Nahar

The long-time cartoonist for An-Nahar, Pierre Sadiq, has been fired.  He has been suing the paper.  He, of course, shares the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) stance of the paper so the conflict is purely financial.  The paper has been trying to get rid of all staff members who have been cashing big checks.  The paper is now marginal: it has no role whatever in Lebanese politics and its decline has been going on for some years, and Jubran Tuwayni was much better at fund raising (a former editor at the paper told me that when you saw a big picture of wealthy Lebanese businessman, `Isam Faris, it meant that Jubran just got a big check from him, and he also had financial links to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait). But Pierre Sadiq deserves to be fired: his cartoons (and I know something about political cartoons because I used to do it from an early age) are so amateurish and direct and crude and have no subtlety.  If the famed cartoonist of Le Monde once said that best cartoons have least words and least strokes, Sadiq belonged to the sophomoric schools.  He also worked early for Hariri family.  It is hilarious that yesterday, the New York Times quoted Sarkis Na`um (a longtime columnist for An-Nahar who used to parrot the views of `Abdul-Halim Khaddam although he later said--I swear--that disagreed with the Syrian regime AFTER they withdrew their forces from Lebanon.  He now parrots the views of any American he meets in Washington, DC.   He is so weird and naive: he meets, let us say, a Middle East "expert" at WINEP or Saban Center and then he interviews the person (without naming him) for days on end, and quotes his every word, and assumes that this superior White Man in front of him can predict the future of every Arab country.  And is English seems to be quite bad: weeks ago he translated "not likely" as "certainly" in a TV interview.  Most importantly, do you know anyone who reads the columns of Na`um??