The wings of the Aoun family are divided between “New” and “LBC”

Why did you decide to reply with “Al Jadeed”? The presenter Josephine Deeb opens her questions to the head of the National Commission for Lebanese Women’s Affairs, Claudine Aoun Roukoz, during her appearance on the channel “Al Jadid” on Sunday morning, to respond to a report issued by the channel “LBC” last week about the company. Clementine “, in which he said that Claudine Aoun, daughter of the President of the Republic, took advantage of her position in power (she holds the presidency of the commission on a voluntary basis and is an advisor to her father, President Michel Aoun) to obtain advertising contracts For your company.

Claudine recounts the story, and her attempt to contact the station’s president, Pierre Al-Daher, and news director Lara Fadel Zalloum, who said: “I am an employee” and “you have to ask Pierre Al-Daher.” and that someone came and told him … so that Deeb would repeat the question with a firm conclusion. Do you respond through “the new”?

The question and its conclusion confirm without a doubt that the interview was conducted at the request of Claudine Aoun. An interview with a flavor of response, the “new” will certainly be welcome as long as it is controversial material. I would appreciate your choice to be a platform for one of the two warring parties within the same ruling family. The first team in the family, Representative Gebran Bassil, chose “LBC”, while the second team chose the channel “Al Jadid”. Two competing channels on corruption files and responses, and maintain relations with the political team that surrounds the president of the republic, or at least one of his wings.

The choice of the media is not in vain to respond, although Claudine Aoun followed the legal path to sue LBC. The report shattered his image and cast doubt on his power, which Aoun did not hide in his television appearance. She chose the answer to correct a belief drawn by the media, despite knowing that even if it was a false rumor, it settles in people’s minds and is difficult for a correction or answer to erase. Even if the report was “void of content,” Aoun said, it still raises questions about the benefits of the ministries for which the “Free Patriot” was responsible, before his father became president, especially “energy” and “communications”.

In fact, Claudine’s tense relationship with “LBC” is due to reports on the National Authority that the channel aired in 2019, and the channel suggested that there are suspicions of corruption around the organization. Claudine indicates the change in the relationship by saying that “the new” corrected the content of what it suggested about the file itself, while the “LBC” did not do that … to suggest that the station’s political agenda it has become at odds with her, since “the LBC boycotted my husband since the elections.” Parliament to this day, “referring to Rep. Shamil Roukoz, but warns against indicting Basil in public, saying that he will go to court to uncover the inciters.

Claudine is trying to strike a balance to avoid believing that the “new” is aligned with her, as opposed to the “LBC.” In an ingenious way, he says that each station has its own political agenda, and that the “new” is one of the “fiercest” screens against the president of the republic … but it is a largely unconvincing attempt, since Depp led her to the alignment suspicion when she repeated twice that Claudine chose the “new” to answer … But that’s just a detail, since the battle with the “LBC” is for her “agenda”.

LBC’s agenda is linked to a “troublemaker,” according to Claudine Aoun. Who else is the “Free Patriotic Movement”? The closest confidant does not need supernatural intelligence to know his identity, if collateral questions cross: Basil is about a fight with Roukoz, and the brother of the news director on the channel, is a leader in the movement, and all the reports in The station benefits the movement in terms of shedding light on the media on corruption to its opponents and accusers. Corrupt!

In fact, Claudine’s attempt to answer and correct was able to restore an image, but did not prevent it from being crushed. “The damage happened,” Aoun repeated. Basil uses the media as part of his strategy to attack opponents and destroy their images to defend himself against the growing accusations against him for corruption and influence in political decisions. He uses it against all opponents, inside and outside the family, inside and outside the government, inside and outside the alliances, and perhaps within his party, which he managed to hold strongly for at least 3 years.

“Certainly on a political agenda.” Claudine Aoun says about “LBC”, and talks about abolition wars, about “LBC” at the end, a company, and the corruption record that attracts spectators … It is an attack in the defense exhibition. But the battle of the media is generally won by the attacker, and the battle is lost even if you win it in defense and responses … and in the judiciary.