The last years have witnessed specialized websites in checking fake news to limit its spread and then raise awareness of its danger. Arab press has no clear role to face the fake news, except for a few media institutions as Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, which has realized the danger of this phenomenon that invade the world because of its easy circulation through social networks such as Facebook,…
This article is part of a larger qualitative study that investigates the Lebanese journalism culture and performance in relation to the Israeli forces' operations against Lebanon and their encounters with the Lebanese resistance between 1996 and 2000. News values and objectivity are key aspects of the culture that this paper explores. It is a story about journalism told by a journalist, yet one…
A decade after the end of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, I spotlight the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of the conflict. Following an overview of the immediate and (then-) innovative media tools and techniques used to capture its momentum--blogging, video-making, and online comics--and of Arabic-, French-, and English-language literary writings referring to the war, I focus on how…