[Red Phoenix]

there are few independents in lebanon, let's say 10-15%, but lbc managed to scoop them up after targetting them and succeeding, they mostly voted against us in the elections.

now those independents weren't even on the radar of otv, cuz otv was fishing fish out of its own bucket of partisans and not from the stream. there was no attempt to reach them.

so 70:30 %

becomes

70-15 : 30+15

55 : 45 %

then thx to lbc's reach to clueless independents abroad who believe its subtle lies, they came in and vote against us hence the end result is

51 : 49 %

a miracle really

so ya it's a big deal that otv was in a coma as far as getting a broader, even slim, audience that made a difference.

and no one can criticize otv if it has a low budget, but we can criticize it if regularly keeps us in the dark when elections tallies are not developping to our favor (otv switched to movies or documentaries or music clips at around 11pm on june7, & the day after the ghada eid scandal we were promised a tought rebutal at the evening news but ended up with a vietnam movie), when the news intros cost us independents to switch to other channels (we can have a census here about this), and when when very simple basic low level elements of professionalism are neglected (3 times gma talked to the masses b4 the elections while there was shadow cast on his face, in jbeil we didnt' even see his face and in baabda the camera was shaking which is better than her focus on very few empty chair in achrafieh was)..

lbc and ftv and mtv are no good, but otv is going the wrong way in facing them

many of us were pulling off rabits and elephants out of our hats to get an extra friend or family member to vote for us, but how many extra votes did otv get us ?