Against the backdrop of LBCI correspondent Rawad Taha's controversial report that recently sparked outrage, a heavy debate unfolded between the host of the program "Haki Sadiq," Dima Sadek, and the head of the news and political programs department at "Al-Jadeed" channel, Maryam Al-Bassam, via the "X" platform. It is worth mentioning that Rawad Taha condemned the "Hamas" movement in his report titled "The War of the Insane and Extremists Destroys Gaza."
Dima Sadek opposed the discrediting of Taha, even when she disagreed with him, declaring her solidarity with him, and criticized those she termed "the dinosaurs of exclusion and silencing," who adhere to the journalism practices from the 1960s and 1970s. This description angered Maryam Al-Bassam, who began her post with the phrase: "Oh worthless..." and condemned Sadek's mockery of that veteran generation of journalists. She remarked: "There are many who learned a sentence from this generation in particular. As for dictatorship, dogmatism, and hegemony, these are terms you barely know the last of. Everything you are engaging in is wars that have no relation to journalism. You are spinning... and (referring to presenter Nicole Hajl) is trying to mimic you in a 'copycat' fashion, and you call yourselves media, yet you want to theorize about freedoms and dinosaurs."
To the "worthless" lady... oh ignorant Google, what do you know about the journalism of that time which established the factories of word, position, newspapers, and Eastern printing? For the second time, you are speaking disdainfully about the journalism of the sixties and seventies in a mocking manner, but let someone tell you that from that time the day emerged and…
However, Dima Sadek responded with a lengthy post directed at Al-Bassam, concluding with the phrase "Dinosaurs are destined to go extinct." Sadek stated: "I spoke about the dinosaurs of exclusion and the dictatorship of propaganda without naming anyone, yet one of them volunteered to attribute these traits to herself." The post continued: "If Ghassan Tueni had known that there was a 'media figure' with such credibility, professionalism, and integrity that she would constantly insult one of the prime ministers in her sarcastic introductions, while gathering with him and begging him, in front of a group of journalists, including myself, to appoint her friend from Baalbek, if Tueni had known that this 'media figure' claims belonging…"
Numerous debates were ignited by the aforementioned report, with some denouncing the equating of Hamas with Israel and others asserting that it was merely a viewpoint.
