Who’s doing the best job covering the Lebanon crisis? In my opinion it’s the bloggers and the French media, whose coverage is balanced and extensive (lots of news reports, photos and video).

None of the other media outlets covers the war with the same kind of detail as the French do. Here are links to French newspapers’ online coverage plus a TV station (France 2) for more video:

Le Monde: has the most extensive coverage of all the online newspapers

Le Figaro

Libération

France 2 (TV channel with video feeds)

Links to media coverage in English, German and Spanish

BBC: the best for English language news (also has video)

Tagesschau.de (German, lots of video)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: serious coverage of the Lebanon crisis (no hysteria)

El Pais (Spanish paper based in Madrid)

Blogs

The Wall Street Journal posted a list of blogs but missed Global Voices (link from David Weinberger).

And here are other blogs suggested by friends:

Kerblog: Mazen Kerbaj’s blog (with drawings)

Witnessing (Again): blog of Laure Ghorayeb, a painter and poet in Beirut

Anecdotes from a Banana Republic: very funny in a morbid way. Here’s a sample from a recent post:

Theories of war, in circulation:
1) Everytime Germany loses to Italy in the World Cup, Israel invades Lebanon (1982, 2006)
2) Israel schedules invasions for the summer, so that students won’t be around to protest (1982, 2006)
3) Israel is pounding Lebanese land in the hope of discovering oil
4) Lebanon is an expendable state for all its competing allies, destined for proxy wars, in part due to the opportunism and attention-seeking of its political class
5) Israel wants to cleanse the south of the Shia
6) Hariri wants to re-rebuild the country and will share the spoils with Saudi Arabia and the US


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