Beyond Unprofessional: MTV’s Immorality
-DISCLAIMER- MTV Lebanon deleted the voice message from their online piece after this article was published. A young man committed suicide on Thursday, for reasons that are beyond all of us and of no concern to the public. I choose not to share his full name freely, in the name of ethics, but I know most people reading this article are aware of who I am talking about. Once again, a tragedy has become a matter of public debate; one person expresses their repulsion towards suicide, another wishes Wael forgiveness from God, and the rest just enjoy the buzz of this new “talk of the town”. Two days ago it was Myriam Klink’s video, today it is a young man who decided to end his life. I refuse to accept that this is how things go nowadays. The two events are not of equal importance — and they are not of equal sensitivity. One is a joke, the other is a young man’s life. As an agency followed by a large part of the Lebanese population, it is MTV’s duty to make sure sensit...