But there is still reason for despair in regards to Middle Eastern media, specifically, The Tehran Times. The Times is to responsible journalism what the Flat Earth Society is to modern physics. A joke.
Here is an excerpted article, Foreign meddling in Lebanese election, from the latest Tehran Times.
The third phase of parliamentary elections in Lebanon was held on Sunday, although the political outlook for the country is still ambiguous.
My note: I'm blogging this post at about 0400 Sunday hours Lebanese time. I don't believe the polls have opened yet. No, Mitch Albom didn't write the article, some guy named Hassan Hanizadeh wrote this epic piece of journalism.
The constant interference of both regional and extra-regional powers in Lebanon’s domestic affairs, with the goal of influencing the parliamentary election, as well as the current disputes between the country’s Christian groups over how to hold the elections have made political analysts quite worried about the future of Lebanon.
In addition, the alliance of the Shia parties Amal and Hezbollah on one electoral list and the fact that they won all 23 parliamentary seats in southern Lebanon has aggravated the Zionists.
In an interfering response, the Zionist regime has once again suggested that the Lebanese Islamic resistance forces must be disarmed so that it can lay the ground for a renewed Israeli military presence in Lebanon.
It goes on and on....the same rant. Take tour--if you can stomach it--of the Tehran Times. If Israel is rarely mentioned by name by the Times, it's always, "the Zionist regime," Israelis are almost alway called "Zionists." At least they capitalize the "Z!"
This AP article does a better job, as they acknowledge that balloting in Lebanon hasn't started yet.
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