2024-05-11 06:42:50
The TikTok gang tempts the Lebanese media: Beyond crime
Lebanon has been concerned for two weeks by the issue of the TikTok gang involved in…Child rape crimes Blackmail them and force them to do it Take drugsAnd other tragic details that come to light one by one as security investigations continue and new names of gang members are revealed. At the time of writing, no judicial or security authority has issued a clear statement on this TikTok gang, nor on the case. Everything that has been published is just leaks published by journalists and correspondents close to the security services. or analyzes and information, some of which are true and others true, a lie that has transformed an issue so serious and so sensitive for the lives of the victims, their families and public opinion in general, into a field game for exhibitionism. , which is often vulgar.
The Tik Tok gang and the trap of media temptation
Thus, we saw Lebanese televisions enter the bidding race in their coverage of the subject, and certain media professionals transformed themselves into police inspectors in search of the “truth”, and some of them fell into the trap of spreading false news, while the height of vulgarity was present in the episode of the show “Above 18” presented by the Lebanese channel Rabaa Al-Zayyat. Al-Zayat promoted its episode, which aired last week, on the sole premise that it would feature Hassan Singer, one of the informants who helped uncover the case. It turned out that Singer was a partner in the gang, as well as the Lebanese. The courts took the decision to arrest him, directly, which did not happen because the accused left Lebanon at the end of last March.
Rabaa Al-Zayat’s reception of Hassan Singer opened the door to criticism of the media’s performance in this case, without any consideration for its sensitivity, especially since the victims were minors. This applies to the general media coverage of this case, particularly through websites that competed by publishing information with sexual and provocative headlines, as if it were a sex scandal rather than a crime that Lebanon has not experienced anything like this in recent years, with its horror, its details and the intersection of those involved.
Lebanese media and issues of sexual violence
Lebanese television channels cannot be separated from this issue nor from daily reality, following a series of programs that began in the mid-90s and which always sought to obtain the highest audience rates, without surrendering realizes that they had become a basis for promoting phenomena, some of which are dangerous, especially for minors, in the absence of the necessary instructions or directives The warning which precedes the presentation of these programs.
At the beginning of the current century, social broadcasts spread across Lebanese screens, most of which turned into scandalous reports, transforming Lebanese television studios into a real field of struggle, and previously taboo subjects were able to break out. a path to the small screen, but without any sobriety in the treatment. While social networks dominate the media scene, the channels have multiplied the scandals in order to catch up with the trend and achieve high audience rates on electronic platforms, and thus achieve greater financial profits, taking into account of the decline in their activity. advertising revenue in the period following the economic crisis in 2019.
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