Battle Of The Websites



Lebanese politics

The Lebanese Forces and the FPM have both decided to overhaul their online news portals.

One party wants to unzip their new site open while the other prefers to tear off the cover. Isn’t competition a wonderful thing? Say what you want about the Lebanese Christians, but they seem to be the only ones engaged in real democracy nowadays.

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  1. Competition is usually good for consumers. The same applies to politics.

    Posted by Lemon | April 22, 2008, 12:12 am
  2. and principles are to be bought and sold by empires on the open market.

    Posted by gallabeyyah | April 22, 2008, 2:33 am
  3. Does it have to say Lebanese Christians! With such categorizing you will face too many counter arguments. Get over it and grow Lebanese 7af as first step towards humanity.

    Posted by Mazen | April 22, 2008, 10:25 am
  4. I really don’t see how Lebanese Christians are engaged in normal democracy any more than any other sects in Lebanon. If you honestly think the LF and the FPM are democratic organizations, or that their respective followers choose them based on their “platforms”, you are sorely mistaken.

    Posted by Bad Vilbel | April 22, 2008, 5:06 pm
  5. Well,

    let’s face reality. Mostapha is right (and i’m not proud of saying that neither) but this is the way things are getting presented to us.

    Mostapha, try to add a Screenshot of Almoustaqbal’s website. I’ve been sending them emails for the last 2 years trying to tell them to follow the trend, and use internet dammit. Nothing.

    However, i’d also agree with Mazen. Putting the visual stuff aside and the historical competition between those two parties, if you reach the content of every site, you’ll notice that it has nothing to do with democracy.

    I actually found out the ideal way of reading lebanese newspapers without being ‘endoctriné’ by they demagogia.

    1-read the headings of tayyar.org.
    2-grab a coffee, digest the info…hate March 14 for 5 minutes
    3-read lebanese-forces.com’s headings. re-wind the scene. analyse…digest. conclude….(you ‘often’ end up concluding that tayyar was either exagerating or simply getting its info from Al-Akhbar)
    4-go back to tayyar. read up. digest. open a window and scream “THOSE F*KING MARCH 14 BASTARDS, HOW COULD THEY DO IT”
    5-switch to LF. calm down a bit.
    6-switch to naharnet. calm down even more
    7-switch to almoustaqbal.com….wow! quite a shock on the design level. but yes, these ppl represent 80% of the beirutees and some other 80 of the sunnis. so bear with them. complete deception on the content. you’d think you’re reading some sort of a syrian newspaper. this site should be used in extreme situation, and for medical purposes only, just in the case when ALL other m14 websites are down.

    8-now get a green vision of the lebanese political scene with beirutspring.com, this type of sites is ideal for ending your daily “revue de presse”.

    of course, 2 hours later SO MANY THINGS should have changed. so you go back, refresh, blablabli, blablablou….

    And what itches me is that we lebanese think we’re SMART PPL!

    Posted by Moe | April 23, 2008, 9:04 am

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Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.

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