BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea announced the launch of the LFTV, a web-based television, at a dinner party Tuesday night, affirming the LF’s commitment to a free and democratic media.
“While the Lebanese Forces is building a free media and making it the free and democratic media that meets with the current historical people's movements, we find some political factions dragging Lebanese media down using it as a mere tool for political propaganda filled with misperceptions, slanders, allegations and personal offences,” Geagea said during his speech at the launching ceremony held at Jeita Country Club.
Geagea also said that the launch of the web TV, which will broadcast its first news segment Wednesday at 9 p.m., would not replace the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, stressing that the LBC would return to its original owners.
The LF and LBC board of directors head Pierre Daher have been disputing for the past several years the ownership of the television station which was primarily founded by the LF and later run by Daher, its co-founder.
During his speech, Geagea also touched on the current situation in Lebanon, describing the current Cabinet, in which the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance holds a majority of seats, as a means to strengthen Iran’s power in the Middle East.
“Hezbollah's political and ideological project merely serves other projects that can only be seen as a way to strengthen Iran's power in the Middle East to the point of transforming Iran into the strongest regional background,” Geagea said, adding that it was not reasonable for Lebanon to be exploited to serve Iran’s interests in the region.