It’s like with every event, TeknoAnd keep answering my prayers to the Techno gods and bringing us acts I would have never thought I’d see in Beirut.
On Thursday February 8, 2018 TeknoAnd will be transforming CLOSR into a veritable temple for Techno with none other than Boris, an artist very dear to my heart, and Amotik, supported by Raphael Merheb and Archetype b2b with Elie Kozah.
Why I Love Boris
We all have those nights that stay with you even years later. The ones you can get flashbacks of on command, and smile at the good time you had. For me, one of those nights was my first ever weekend spent at Berghain in Berlin. It was years ago, during my first trip to Berlin. And, you guessed it, Boris (a long-running Berghain resident) started his gargantuan 4-hour set only minutes after I had checked my coat and warmed myself up for an unforgettable weekend in a club I had been daydreaming of being at for the longest time.
I’d say the set was life-changing, but I don’t wanna sound cheesy. The venue, the sound system, the people, the surreal vibe all fell into place when he began. It was rough, uncompromising and gorgeous. If I focus hard enough, I can still feel the kicks from that set. That was when I fell in love with Berghain and the culture it represented. While living in Berlin, I’d check the Berghain lineups every month and check when Boris was playing to try and catch a glimpse of that very first night that solidified my everlasting love for Techno, Berlin Techno especially.
Anyway, I’m gonna stop here cause I could keep going for hours. In short, I’m super fucking excited that Boris is coming to my beloved Beirut. Here’s a set to help you get a feel of what’s in store!
AMOTIK’s Uncompromising Techno
It’s crazy that Amotik released his debut EP only 3 years ago, because his Berlin-drenched raw, hypnotic and relentless brand of Techno scratched a very particular itch hardcore Techno heads had. As if it wasn’t enough having Boris come all the way from Berlin, TeknoAnd have summoned another Berlin Techno heayweight, and TeknoAnd resident Amotik.
I will let his set below illustrate what I mean by uncompromising, raw and hypnotic.
We’re Hooking 4 of You Up with Guest-list Passes
For the occasion of Boris and Amotik coming to Beirut, and the first TeknoAnd night at CLOSR, we couldn’t help but sweeten the deal even more by letting 4 of you skip the line and enjoy your night on us.
BONUS- You don’t have to, but if we see you post something or share the event link on your Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #ComeCLOSRtoTeknoAnd, I’ll personally make sure we enter your name into the draw twice.
I’ll announce the winners on my Instagram account on Wednesday afternoon, so make sure you stay tuned, and see you all there!
Please note, this is a 20+ event, so if you’re younger, you will not be allowed to enter at the door. Thanks for understanding!
After 17 years in its current location at the Beirut Waterfront near the Central District of Beirut, BIEL is moving to a new, much bigger, much more central location in Beirut’s Tahouita.
The 43,000sqm project will start operating as early as this April, with the first phase of the project already under construction. Phase 2 will be completed by June 2018, Phase 3 by April 2020 and the final fourth phase in April 2021.
Personally, I am glad BIEL is moving. The current location is an absolute nightmare when there’s an event, with thousands of cars coming in via a single entrance because all the others either didn’t exist, or were always closed with cement blocks for some reason. I would often park in Beirut Souks, and walk, given the parking was so expensive and often still a long walk to the actual venue.
The new location has several exits and entrances, as well as ample parking spots. It’s also adjacent to several main highways and thoroughfares that connect the venue to the areas in Metn, Baabda and Beirut.
Location: Tahouita
Tahouita Area, close to Emile Lahoud Highway. The new BIEL will be inside the red square above.
The Plans and Renders
I’ve been sniffing around the new BIEL story for a few weeks, and managed to dig up the below renders. Hopefully, I’ll have more information soon.
An earlier concept of what the new BIEL will look like
The good thing about the new BIEL is it will include a lot of green space that will be accessible to the public, which is much-needed given the only other public green space that’s big enough, Horsh Beirut, is largely still off-limits for us taxpayers even after years of demanding it be opened fully to all of Beirut’s residents.
I will be posting more as soon as I know anything new, but it looks like it’s going to be a lot more than just an exhibition space this time around!
Earlier this month, I was supposed to attend the London launch of Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music: Hybrid Sounds. Unfortunately, my UK visa was denied. Not wanting to miss out on asking the artists and people behind this event a couple of questions, I sent some with my dear friends who were able to attend.
What is it?
Boiler Room and Ballantine’s announced this year’s True Music: Hybrid Sounds, a three-continent tour which will pair some of the electronic music scene’s most original live acts with their more traditional, instrumental counterparts in four of the most musically and culturally diverse cities in the world:
Moscow, Russia
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Valencia, Spain
BEIRUT, Lebanon
Each event will explore exciting possibilities at the intersection of electronic and acoustic music, uncovering what happens when two distinct music types collide and merge.
This is the third year of Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music, and this year they’ve gone a step further by encouraging artists to not just create something new, but pushing them out of their comfort zones and pairing them with artists they’v never worked with before, and probably would have never even met under normal circumstances. After all, acoustic artists and electronic artists usually operate in completely different circles.
True Music: Hybrid Sounds will see four lead producers collaborate with local musicians in each of the cities on the international tour (including BEIRUT!), to create new tracks that disobey the traditional idea of musical genres. The blend of synthetic and organic sounds will feature on the True Music EP that will be released on digital and vinyl later in 2018.
Why Was Beirut Chosen?
I asked the folks behind the True Music tour what made them choose Lebanon, and their answer was perfect:
Lebanon is a first for us and for Boiler Room, and we’re extremely excited to get under the skin of this incredible city that’s often overlooked as a music destination. Dollkraut is the perfect collaborator to hit up Beirut and work with us to unearth some of the more diverse talent.
I’m not gonna say anything about the date yet, but I promise I’ll announce it soon enough. Get ready for the first real Boiler Room experience Beirut!
Interviews
Since I couldn’t physically be there, I sent a couple of questions with Nadim, who was kind enough to ask them to the artists, and record them for me so I can transcribe them below. I got to interview rRoxymore, Dollkraut, Steven Appleyard and Tom Elton.
rRoxymore
I’ve embedded a set by rRoxymore so you can listen to it as you the interview with her.
Your music obviously feels right at home at a club, but there’s that something special to it too, that makes it stand out and become instantly addictive even outside of a club setting. What would you say is the recipe to achieve that unique sound?
Well, to make catchy songs, it’s a recipe of several things. You have to be emotional, you absolutely have to, but in my case it’s more complicated, or rather complex. I try to reproduce something, but in my style. It constantly evolves. If I wanna do a classic House track for example, I say ok, I’m gonna do it like this, but no, this is too obvious, so I’m not gonna do it like that instead, I’m gonna do it the other way. I don’t wanna be just simple, that doesn’t interest me.
Do you listen to music, or are you too caught up producing it?
Since I also DJ, I listen to music every day. Sometimes, just to challenge myself, I get inspired from something and try to do something like it but with my own style. I’m not gonna claim I created a style out of nothing all by myself, that would be pretentious!
I heard you’re playing at Berghain next week, can you tell me what that’s like, and if you’re gonna prepare for it like any other night, or is it different when preparing a set or performance at such an iconic club?
Yes, it’s definitely a very special night. The first few times I played there, it was always upstairs in Panorama Bar. This is the first time I play downstairs in Berghain, so Techno! It’s also a celebration of a friend who is releasing a Berghain mix, and I produced a track for that mix. I’m also opening the night, so it’s gonna be amazing getting people to start dancing! If you’ve been to Berghain, there’s no one dancing there at midnight, people start to dance at 1–2, so it’s always a interesting challenge to get people to start dancing in a place like that.
I haven’t started to prepare yet, because I was on holiday in Mexico, but yes of course I’m going to prepare for it, and a bit differently than I would any other club or party.
You’ve been to Beirut before, what was your impression of our city?
I really liked it, I would love to go back! I was there for a world music/electronic tour. It was a really very lively, beautiful city. It’s a bit like Ibiza, but on another level I guess!
Dollkraut
Have you been to Beirut before? If not, what have you heard about the music scene in the Lebanese capital?
No, not yet. Well, one of my DJ heroes Morphosis (Rabih Beaini) is from Lebanon! The entire area has a very rich musical history, and I listen to all kinds of stuff from the Middle East and North Africa. I’m thinking older stuff, 70s, 80s, Tunisian music, Moroccan stuff. I like the folky, arabesque music, the ones that leverage quarter tones in their music. In the Western world, they say “Ooh, that’s too much, that’s not correct”. But, what is correct? I mean, if it sounds good, it sounds good. That’s why we were very happy when they asked us if you want to go to Lebanon, because we use quarter tones in our music. I even have one track, which features “Sakhrawta” (Zalghoota in Lebanese).
One thing that’s special about your music is how you make use of analog sounds. How do you keep it so fresh and unique?
Yeah, old crap! Haha! Well, we do use the old machines. It’s because of our love for old stuff, and old masters of composing who used these machines, and did beautiful things with them. I was thinking, why not keep doing this? Why should I go with innovation, computer stuff? You know? Maybe I’m old-fashioned, I guess you could say that.
I’m not a person who loves just following technology trends. I don’t think that’s a good thing in every situation too, a lot of bad things happen because of these new technologies. One small example is that there are already rumors that Facebook makes you anti-social, so adopting the newest technology isn’t always what’s best.
Does the Beirut night mean that Lebanon’s music scene is finally getting the recognition it deserves?
I’ve never been there, and I’m going to see it with my own eyes. It has definitely peaked my curiosity. I will meet the artists in the first session and maybe record some stuff together. Then I will come back to Beirut again for the actual show! I hope I can stay more days, at least a bit longer to explore the country.
Steven Appleyard (Boiler Room’s Chief Business Development Officer)
Beirut hasn’t really been on the Boiler Room radar before. We’re very excited it’s finally coming to Beirut. Do you have any particular expectations about the Beirut edition of this tour?
I hope that it’s gonna be fun! (laughter) I don’t know if I have any specific expectations or hopes. The reason Boiler Room exists, is it’s an online window into real-world, emerging music scenes and subcultures that are otherwise not readily accessible. That’s why we started it 7–8 years ago, because there was this amazing scene happening in London, in East London very specifically. A lot of DJs, like Ben UFO, Jamie XX and others were in our scene, but didn’t get the exposure we felt they deserved. So, we stuck this GoPro camera with tape to the wall and started filming like a keyhole into the local music scene. It was connected to a U-stream account, in the pre-YouTube days.
I guess we still, even now with a big team of 120 people who work for us globally with offices in different countries, the MO is still the same. It’s about shining the spotlight on local music scenes, real-life music scenes and subcultures, as they are lived and we report directly from the dance floor, uncut. The cameras are definitely better now, but it’s still free and wild. We don’t want to report on the scenes, we want a true presentation of those scenes and convey that experience to the rest of the world.
I think that through this collaboration with Ballantine’s, the largest part is showcasing artists who are “True Music”: authentic, going against the grain, doing what they want to do. We partner with international artists, and collaborate with local artists to make interesting, new sounds and combinations. Also, working with more famous people gets more attention and engagement, so when we go into the local market, people are checking for it, and we want to get the widest possible audience to engage with the event.
What I’m hoping to get out of it, is that we showcase artists who are representative of True Music and we specifically get to showcase the scene and the people, promoters and the places that are part of this scene to everyone else in the world. Everyone says that Lebanon is popping right now, and the weather is very nice, so we can’t wait to go there!
Tom Elton (Ballantines head of music)
I had to ask the Ballantine’s folks why they’re making what seems to be a shift towards the electronic music scene the past few years, so I sent a couple of questions to Tom Elton.
Ballantine’s exudes a classic, vintage feel to it. Does the collaboration with Boiler Room signal a particular interest in the electronic music and clubbing scene?
That’s a good question. The reason Ballantine’s and Boiler Room partnered together is, we are all about supporting people and artists who do things their way. Boiler Room absolutely epitomises that. They are pioneers in the electronic music scene, everything about their brand, their brand philosophy, their approach to artists, experiences, is inherently “stay true”.
This made them the perfect partners for us. What we did is we created this platform called True Music, which is fundamentally about giving a platform and a voice for emerging artists, and established ones, and showcase it to the rest of the world. So, that’s why we’re doing it together. We’re connecting these people, communities around the world and showcasing them on a global level.
That’s why we’re going to Lebanon, everyone tells us the music scene in Lebanon is kicking up, is something that not only we need to go and see, but the whole world needs to see on a bigger scale. That’s why we’re in Lebanon, we’ll make sure we do justice to one of the best music scenes in the world.
We pushed Beirut for a few reasons, like firstly, going to new places with thriving music communities, both for Ballantine’s and Boiler Room. It’s also what all of our friends tell us to do, especially the artists! All the artists keep telling us Lebanon is a place we need to go to and explore. Everyone talks like “Beirut is going off!” and it’s somewhere we haven’t been present heavily as a brand been in there heavily, and Boiler Room have just dipped their toes there before. Now that’s it’s a thriving music scene, it makes sense for us to go there.
I want to thank the Ballantine’s and Boiler Room teams for making me part of this tour, and soon, I will be headed to Moscow to cover that part of the tour, so stay tuned!
Part of the reason this blog rose to popularity in the past 8 years, is because of the “leaks” I used to do. Those leaks would focus mainly on new places being built, artists coming from abroad or just generally things that the public isn’t aware of yet, that I got the chance to know of and instinctively shared with you guys. I’m doing this far less now, and only when it’s worth it.
That’s why when I found out that February 30 is under construction on the Beirut Waterfront, I just had to restart this series on the blog!
Where
It’s at the Beirut Waterfront, in the Bloc Market complex where AHM is, across the street from Music Hall Waterfront.
When
It’s opening on February 30, 2018. Just kidding (there isn’t a February 30) it actually opens on the third week of February, so stay tuned for the exact date!
What
Back when I was at AUB, February 30 caused quite the stir when it opened up in the famous alleyway in Hamra. The place had a charm and atmosphere that no pub had since tried to do, and even though lots of places tried to imitate the style, none of them actually matched the eclectic bundle of chaos that was Feb 30.
The furniture and decor was their most interesting feature, with up-cycled furniture and decor from the most random of items: cooking pots, old motorcycles, gas canisters, optical-illusion inspired designs and loads more.
What was cool about it, was that if you got bored with your group or date, there was always something your eyes can wander to and notice for the first time, even if you’d been there a few times already.
The new February 30 builds up on the awesomeness of the first one, but bigger, better and more serious. For starters, it’s gonna be much more spacious, so you will have a more relaxed seating arrangement, instead of an always-packed pub that is hard to move in.
It also features a stage and large bar this time, with tables and lounges too for those of you who want a bite to eat along with your drinks. Just look at the epic renders I got my hands on today:
So, stay tuned for more details the second I can find out more, as well as the exact date!
Most Lebanese have spent the past few hours gawking at how far the relationship between the Amal Movement and the Free Patriotic Movement has deteriorated. After comments by the foreign minister Gebran Bassil leaked, where he calls the speaker of parliament Nabih Berri a “thug”, an already strained relationship virtually devolved into outright threats and curses that are at more than 35k tweets at the time of writing this article.
Why You Should Care
Personally, I couldn’t give less of a fuck if the two political parties are fighting each other. It just shows that even though their heads were pretending to be friends, their bases have a LOT of hatred towards each other that was pent up, and is being released in the most disgusting, sectarian way possible.
However, seeing all this, and the outright threats of murdering Lebanon’s foreign minister, and other outrageous tweets and statuses that are tagged with the hashtag Amal supporters have started, there’s one thing that bothered me:
This recent scandal has proven that the General Prosecutors in Lebanon have lost complete legitimacy. That’s because they unleash the full power of the government, and use outdated laws against someone that calls the president “old”, or criticizes any of the symbols of the current “dynasty”, but we haven’t heard a peep from them after outright threats from political party supporters. Those supporters have made obvious breaches of the same outdated laws general prosecutions across Lebanon use to target, harass and jail activists, journalists and private citizens who do far less “crimes”.
You Can No Longer Arrest or Summon Someone for their Tweets
If you do, we’ll know that you are selectively applying the law, based on political affiliation and sect. The fact that political partisans can threaten a sitting foreign minister with murder, but a comedian can’t make lame jokes about MBS eating burgers, is a step too far.
Make no mistake, I am not asking that the Amal supporters get summoned, because I believe exaggeration and expressing frustration, even when too disgusting, is people’s unalienable right. And anyway, I don’t think the government has that power to do that against politically affiliated people, just us poor suckers who don’t deify a za3im.
However, the general prosecutors’ enthusiasm to jump on defenseless taxpayers whenever they tweet something silly or exaggerated, or hound journalists who don’t stick to the scripts sent from places like Saudi or Iran, is no longer valid given how they are turning a blind eye to outright threats and sectarian strife.
They can no longer give the excuse “Oh, we’re just enforcing the law” when a status calling the president old gets its writer in a police precinct, but when another citizen’s threats to kill a minister is accepted and fine.
Stop Arresting ANYONE for their Tweets/Statuses
I’m fine with the General Prosecutors not arresting Amal supporters for threatening the foreign minister, if they stop arresting anyone else for far less serious. However, constantly arresting people for harmless opinions shared online, while ones that could actually constitute inciting violence and encouraging someone’s murder, are condoned by the same prosecutors who are waiting for any hapless taxpayer to prey on, humiliate and rob them of their freedom for merely criticizing the people spending our taxes on private initiatives and bad plans with no vision.
If the Lebanese judicial system expects its taxpayers to consider them fair, transparent and independent, then nobody should get arrested for what they say online. Because preying on teenagers sharing articles, while letting political party members rile up sectarian strife and threaten with assassination, isn’t gonna fly anymore.
I know that my curated lists here are often mainly clubbing or electronic music related, but that’s because with all my work load, I often just have time for a few hours of dancing and escapism in the warm embrace of Techno music in dark clubs on the weekend.
However, there’s so much more that happens every week in Beirut, and this week is especially interesting when it comes to culture, art, informed discussions and events that don’t start before midnight!
For those of you who don’t know Elige Abou Youness, she’s a person very dear to my heart who spent last year doing something extremely brave and awesome. She spent every day in a different costume, whether it’s at work, going out, serious meetings or just hanging out with friends and running errands.
Her costume ideas always had a message behind them, and the choices were always relevant to the news of the day or something she was personally interested in shedding light upon. You can find the entire list of costumes, along with photos and a blog posts detailing why she chose each character, what she encountered, and lessons learned from people’s reaction to the outfits. You can find her blog, From My Closet, right here on Medium.
After a whole year doing this amazing project, Elige is organizing an exhibition this Thursday, but it’s not your average exhibition, it includes an interactive performance every hour throughout the exhibition, and I highly advise you book your spot here because several slots are already fully booked!
I’m personally really looking forward to this event, and as a first-hand witness to many of Elige’s costume experiments, I can’t wait to see the final results!
I’m extremely proud that this blog is an official partner of this year’s L’Institut Français Nuit des Idées! It’s 6 hours of fun, food, shows, music, exhibitions and hard-hitting round table discussions. Read up about all the details on my pre-event post about the night!
TIGA is coming to Beirut this Saturday! He’ll be at The Grand Factory, and to make matters even more serious, Jade will be unleashing his music mastery for an 8-hour marathon set at Reunion! Below I’ve embedded a track to get you in the mood!
CLOSR is a new club that has been making waves the past few months in Beirut, and they’re getting Maceo Plex’s label Ellum’s showcase featuring Shall Ocin, Gardens of God and Stephan Barnem! If you still haven’t checked out the place, this is a great night to!
Ziad Doueiri’s “The Insult” has been officially nominated for the “Best Foreign Film” category at The 2018 Academy Awards.
This is huge because this is the first ever Lebanese movie to be shortlisted for an Academy Award, and the first ever Lebanese movie to be nominated for an Oscar award.
I send my congratulations to Ziad Doueiri, a dear friend I had the pleasure of meeting on more than one occasion (some of them unhappy ones). I also thank him for having the guts to tackle a subject that most people would rather avoid.
Let this great achievement be a testament to what Lebanese filmmakers can achieve when the unguided hand of censorship is curbed. Censorship needs to stop, if we are to produce more movies like West Beirut and The Insult. Whining about movies like the upcoming “Beirut” won’t help our image, but making our own better movies will.
The cherry on top is that an Israeli movie was also shortlisted, but didn’t get a nomination. The other nominees are from Chile, Russia, Hungary and Sweden.
Railway Station is a super cool idea of getting Lebanese musical talents and letting them perform in cool, off-beat locations such as Lebanon’s many abandoned train stations.
The debut of the live series of Railway Station TV features none other than the amazing Atomic Circus, a Lebanese duo that includes my dear friend Elias Merheb (3LIAS) and Ziad Sarrouh.
The below video is an hour an 46 minutes of groovy, acid-y, live goodness in the middle of a 100-year-old hydroelectric power plant at the heart of Zahle, the largest city in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did, and looking forward to the next Railway Station TV video and can’t wait for the next live performance of Atomic Circus!
Several of the comments seemed to point the blame at the people, who they feel haven’t been mobilizing or doing their share, but just sitting and complaining about and to the government.
There are a few inaccurate things about that allegation: like the fact that this same strip of beach has been cleaned up by volunteers for sixteen times in 2016 and 2017. It’s not a “yearly” thing, and it’s done by an all-volunteer group of amazing young men and women who give their time and energy to pick up, sort and recycle and compost the tons of waste that washes up on the beach.
Groups like Recycle Lebanon, Live Love Lebanon and many others have been working tirelessly and doing the job of the government, and what every citizen should be doing themselves.
Here are pictures of the cleanup of that same beach in March of 2017
The Cleanups are Important, but not the Solution
So, for everyone whining that taxpayers aren’t doing their part, please get a bit more informed. Hundreds and thousands of young Lebanese men and women have dedicated days of break-back work to clean the garbage that washes up on the sea, or is left there by less considerate people who still litter despite us drowning in garbage (or because?)
I think it’s great the government took quick action to order the clean up of the coast from Zalka to Zouk, however, if the garbage we collect, gets sent to the same landfills they originally came from, I don’t really get what the point is.
Many people were sorting the past two years, thinking their municipalities would recycle them. Most of those sorted bags ended up in those haphazard landfills though. This is a disgrace.
This is the Norm Now
This is not a first-time thing, sadly, it’s the first time many people have noticed this is what’s happening though. Volunteers who clean up, would see the cleaned beach covered with garbage again in a matter of days, if not hours.
Having the garbage moved from our streets, might have made many think that the crisis is over. It’s not, it’s only become much worse. Some trash gets burned and you inhale the toxic fumes. Other trash gets thrown next to our airport’s runways. The rest gets dumped straight into the sea.
These landfills need to stop. The talk about unnecessary incinerators is absurd, and stinks (literally and figuratively). When 77% of our solid waste can be composted and recycled, and in several places, that’s what’s happening and everyone is doing a great job at it, there is no excuse to expand landfills and buy incinerators.
Close the landfills, now. Beause picking up garbage from our beaches, then putting them on dumps on the same coast, is like building a sand castle: every wave will take it back to sea and onto our beaches.
Recycle Lebanon released this statement this morning:
It’s not just the Zalka-Zouk coast though, this was posted earlier today in Beirut, as a direct result from the adjacent Costa Bravo landfill.
If you want to help, get in touch with the many awesome NGOs like Recycle Lebanon and see how you can help. You can also sign up to join a beach clean up with Live Love Lebanon by going here. Don’t say no one’s doing anything but complain, there’s a lot of people doing amazing things. One thing you can do without the extra effort, is stop using so much single-use plastics every day (bottles, cups, plates, bags, etc.).
It seems that the company behind the Eden Bay Resort have been sending out lawsuits against the media who covered the usurping of the last tiny strip of public beaches in Beirut by yet another private hotel/resort. The one sent to MTV though, is particularly salacious.
The lawsuits alleges that even though MTV condemned the assault on the last piece of public beach in the capital, the station was ready to reverse that stance a full 180 degrees if the Eden Bay folks pay up.
I managed to get my hands on the offer allegedly sent by MTV to Eden Bay, after the Eden Bay people solicited it in hopes of proving the outright blackmail for almost a quarter million US dollars.
Here’s the email (I’ve redacted the names and emails and numbers of the individuals in the email, since I’m not MTV and respect people’s privacy)
This is shocking, but I’m not sure it’s really a surprise. MTV’s flip-flopping often happens at break-neck speed. You might all still remember, that not too long ago, their narrative and angles on the Nader Saab case miraculously did a U-turn. After raising concerns put up by the investigation, like all other media outlets, MTV quickly reversed their position a few days later, making flashy reports with animations and special effects in an attempt to discredit the claims posed by some witnesses, people involved with the case and other TV stations.
I’m not saying that’s what happened then, it’s just that there’s a pattern of MTV U-turning suddenly, and it’s amazing to think that a lawsuit raised by Eden Bay might actually reveal how that process might work.
It’s a sad indicator of how terrible the state of the media industry in Lebanon is, where stations might resort to things like making up their own ratings, or outright offering paid reversal in their position concerning the embattled corporation of the week.
Makes you wonder how much of the content is genuine, and eager to see what this lawsuit might reveal.
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