The website was dismayed by a television channel’s attempt to distort the facts regarding the campaign targeting the media official in Bkerke, Walid Ghayyad. Instead of responding with arguments and evidence, the channel chose the method of threats and intimidation.
The channel was not content with leveling accusations, but went further by appointing itself as guardian over the media and public opinion. It went on to “advise” Ghayyad to “ask his friends to serve him by keeping silent,” and sent similar messages to , demanding that it stop writing, threatening with “reports” that would be broadcast on its screen “if necessary,” before concluding its threat with the well-known phrase: “To be continued.”
These arrogant media methods are no longer “useful.” We are not afraid to respond to insults and threats, and we are not about to fall into the trap of “illusion” with an “artificial surplus of power.” However, at the same time, we understand this channel’s fear of the “future of the media.”
In the world of media, when a television channel turns into a threatening entity, and replaces journalism with intimidation, and waving with words, we are facing an unprecedented moral and professional decline. Journalism, simply, publishes documented and responsible information, or remains silent.
More dangerous than that is practicing this behavior with excessive confidence, as if there is media in Lebanon capable of subjugating everyone through intimidation, and that anyone who opposes it will submit or be afraid. There may be those who succumb to these methods, but it is clear that this channel has addressed the wrong target this time.
does not fear, is not intimidated, and will not be silenced under threat. Whoever has “files” should publish them. Whoever has facts should present them. As for whoever waves, postpones, and threatens, he is not practicing journalism, but blackmail.
The rule is clear: He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones… and we repeat: should not throw stones.
We did not threaten, we did not wave, and we did not use the language of “to be continued.” We wrote an opinion, and we defended a person who was subjected to an unfair campaign. As for moving to threats, it will not go unnoticed, it will not silence us, and it will not change a letter of what we write.
And most importantly: Whoever is accustomed to subjugating others through intimidation must get used to being confronted today.
To be continued always… but not in the ways of the mafia.
