BEIRUT: A new press club for north Lebanon’s journalists was inaugurated Wednesday in the presence of top officials and influential figures from the region.
Held at Tripoli’s Chamber of Commerce, the ceremony was attended by Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi, and MPs Ahmad Fatfat, Samir Jisr, Khaled Daher, Fadi Karam, Nidal Tohme, Mouin Merehbe, Qassem Abdel-Aziz, Kazem Kheir, Khaled Zahraman, Riad Rahhal and representatives of other officials.
“Many have written and broadcasted ... about the deprivation and negligence that north Lebanon has suffered from,” said the club’s presdent Abdel-Salam Turkmani. “But despite its importance, this is not enough to give Tripoli and the north their rights.
Turkmani stressed that the club’s goal is to push north Lebanon’s media from the state of “complaints and criticisms” to that of “meticulous and strategic action.”
He also explained that the club will defend Tripoli against campaigns that are launched to distort its image.
“Our main goal is to form a media lobby from Tripoli and other northern areas to work on reporting the real image of events, neither a sugar-coated picture, nor a solely negative one.”
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