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Originally Posted by vegojimbo

That's not quite correct. Journalists get paychecks, and whoever pays the checks usually controls the content and style of the articles published. Take a look at l'OdJ's main financial contributor, do the same for Annahar and u would know why these 2 newspapers have changed their political views from 2005 till now.

Just to correct some misconceptions here:

1) If you actually read Scarlet Haddad and Michel Hajji Georgiou who receive their paychecks from the same people who give them Ziad Makhoul and Michel Touma, you realize that the former are pro-FPM and the latter anti-FPM.

2) Before 2005 if L'OLJ were pro-FPM does this mean that they were getting their paychecks from Aoun ??

That's needed badly, but not to remedy the "journalists" problem bc it's unsolvable. It's needed to enhance FPM's image in the eyes of the regular citizen. Do not focus on a losing case like pacifying the journalists.

Journalists are your faster and best way to get to the people.

Remember that during the 2006 war Hezbollah had their biggest victory in that field; they won the media war eventhough a lot of journalists were against them; they managed to show them something else.

So, getting the journalists against you isn't the best way to win the elections or make new friends.

but the issue is that skepticism doesn't play a role here. There is an entire scheme to destroy FPM in the media, and these journalists are hired for a specific job. Ur proposal might work in a western country where the media is less controlled by the politicians and where journalists possess integrity, but in Lebanon it surely is not the case.

This is what we call Change and Reform my friend, if you don't want to play by the rules than join the FM and the LFs, if you want something to change then start with yourself.

U're giving them too much credit. When someone invents scenarios, fabricates lies, promotes them, and keeps repeating them for 2-3 years, then that so called journalist is a lost cause.

Sure, but others aren't and that's why I'm asking the FPM not to close any doors

better direct ur efforts where it counts and where ur work can have some effect. Usually, one does a PR campaign to attract the masses, doing one for journalists is both odd and useless as journalists are already informed about the its and bits of everything. And their articles are written with full conscience and knowledge about the situation in Lebanon.

Read again what I wrote about Hezbollah's war.

Ba3den how do you want to attract the masses if these people get their news through this same media that you want to take on.

Not everyone wants to go to a meeting to learn about the FPM, actually less than 10% do that, the rest of the people get their points of views through normal media, and this means newspapers, radio and TV and ALL of them, not just your media.

Don't forget that the ones who already only watch OTV, Manar, NewTv and NBN are voting for you... What you want to do is get the others who don't vote for you to do so