UPDATE: Got a response from MTV Lebanon, thank you for taking the time to read this. Here is the response from @jyad:
"@ChadiNassar @mtvlebanon you are right, it was not dealt with correctly, will convey the message"
Here is the link to the tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/jyad/status/127132986373193729
Hello you, the Hungry!
By hungry I mean literally in need of food! I am FURIOUS because of something that happened on a TV show yesterday on MTV Lebanon. The irony of it all is that I was having my lunch at the time...
As the Lebanese that live in Lebanon know, prices here are out of this world expensive. The price of eggs has apparently DOUBLED in the past couple of weeks! Yes, x 2! And the media is a buzz about it. Proposing solutions left and right and giving their observations and interviewing those god forsaken politicians and this and that... BLAH BLAH BLAH!
Back to MTV Lebanon. The show: Al Hal Enna. The issue: HOW DARE YOU?!?!
I usually stumble upon this show because my mum puts it on while she is doing other stuff, and as many mothers in Lebanon, she agrees with all the complaints. Then the issue of the recent strikes in Lebanon comes on the show, and a lady caller (yes, she was a LADY and not just a woman) calls and says something that made my parents and I tear and get very frustrated with the situation.
This woman was an elderly woman that called and complained that "Where is the government?" She said. Where is the justice when she and her four children (probably even a husband) has to go to bed without dinner last night, and as the viewer understood every other night. And then she was abruptly CUT OFF. What does the presenter who's name I won't even look up because I have lost ALL respect for her say?
"I agree and sympathise with you, we call out to all the people out there that can afford it to come out and donate food baskets for the poor" or something along those lines.
SHOCK!! Shock was the response of my parents and I. SHOCK!!!!
This LADY was there asking the government to take action and REGULATE prices. She was NOT BEGGING FOR FOOD. No where in her phone call, in her sad and disheartened voice did she ever ask for a handout! NO WHERE!
How dare this woman that is there to represent the people assume that the poor want hand outs? We are a nation, YES A NATION, of proud Lebanese that would rather work and live our lives in DIGNITY.
OFFER A HANDOUT?!
OUTRAGE!!! That is where I am at!
I tried to call the show at 04-444 444 a million times and give that woman, yes WOMAN, a piece of my mind and tell her that instead of suggesting a food basket that is nothing more than a temporary solution to the problem, why not call out to the politicians at that particular moment and DEMAND, yes demand and not ask, for regulating prices in Lebanon.
We are one of the oldest countries to be established on this earth, even mentioned in the Bible around 80 times! Shame on you Al Hal Enna, shame...
I went hungry yesterday because I could no longer eat properly after I heard that woman, but I do not pity her, I pity the nation that is hiding behind its politician's greed and injustice.
To you the politicians of Lebanon I say this:
You are here to serve the PEOPLE, not only yourselves.
You are here to serve the LEBANESE people, not only your sects.
You are here to serve LEBANON!!
I hope that you, the Hungry will go hungry no longer soon.
As for I? I now hunger for JUSTICE in LEBANON!
C
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Here is the link to the tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/jyad/status/127132986373193729
Hello you, the Hungry!
By hungry I mean literally in need of food! I am FURIOUS because of something that happened on a TV show yesterday on MTV Lebanon. The irony of it all is that I was having my lunch at the time...
As the Lebanese that live in Lebanon know, prices here are out of this world expensive. The price of eggs has apparently DOUBLED in the past couple of weeks! Yes, x 2! And the media is a buzz about it. Proposing solutions left and right and giving their observations and interviewing those god forsaken politicians and this and that... BLAH BLAH BLAH!
Back to MTV Lebanon. The show: Al Hal Enna. The issue: HOW DARE YOU?!?!
I usually stumble upon this show because my mum puts it on while she is doing other stuff, and as many mothers in Lebanon, she agrees with all the complaints. Then the issue of the recent strikes in Lebanon comes on the show, and a lady caller (yes, she was a LADY and not just a woman) calls and says something that made my parents and I tear and get very frustrated with the situation.
This woman was an elderly woman that called and complained that "Where is the government?" She said. Where is the justice when she and her four children (probably even a husband) has to go to bed without dinner last night, and as the viewer understood every other night. And then she was abruptly CUT OFF. What does the presenter who's name I won't even look up because I have lost ALL respect for her say?
"I agree and sympathise with you, we call out to all the people out there that can afford it to come out and donate food baskets for the poor" or something along those lines.
SHOCK!! Shock was the response of my parents and I. SHOCK!!!!
This LADY was there asking the government to take action and REGULATE prices. She was NOT BEGGING FOR FOOD. No where in her phone call, in her sad and disheartened voice did she ever ask for a handout! NO WHERE!
How dare this woman that is there to represent the people assume that the poor want hand outs? We are a nation, YES A NATION, of proud Lebanese that would rather work and live our lives in DIGNITY.
OFFER A HANDOUT?!
OUTRAGE!!! That is where I am at!
I tried to call the show at 04-444 444 a million times and give that woman, yes WOMAN, a piece of my mind and tell her that instead of suggesting a food basket that is nothing more than a temporary solution to the problem, why not call out to the politicians at that particular moment and DEMAND, yes demand and not ask, for regulating prices in Lebanon.
We are one of the oldest countries to be established on this earth, even mentioned in the Bible around 80 times! Shame on you Al Hal Enna, shame...
I went hungry yesterday because I could no longer eat properly after I heard that woman, but I do not pity her, I pity the nation that is hiding behind its politician's greed and injustice.
To you the politicians of Lebanon I say this:
You are here to serve the PEOPLE, not only yourselves.
You are here to serve the LEBANESE people, not only your sects.
You are here to serve LEBANON!!
I hope that you, the Hungry will go hungry no longer soon.
As for I? I now hunger for JUSTICE in LEBANON!
C
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