Friday, June 07, 2013

Meet the journalism of the Hariri family: the Now Hariri example

The politically sleazy website, Now Hariri, should be seen as a parody of a news site. Look at this article: it claims that is translated from the Arabic version on the site. But the two are rather different.  The Arabic version attributes its information to "very accurate" (now you learn that there is a category of "accurate" and there is the category of "very accurate") sources and also begins the article by stating that the information was first revealed in an article in Al-Akhbar.  The English version makes no reference to Al-Akhbar whatsoever.  Take an image of the article: I know that they will change it.