I understand why you're pissed at the way they're twisting all the facts surrounding your visit, but trust me it's better not to waste your breath with al manar and al jazeera. The first station is nothing but a Hezbollah propaganda outlet. They don't ascribe to any journalistic ethics principles. People in Lebanon have lost count of the times when they broadcast flat-out lies on their news regarding national issues, from accusing a minister in the government of giving out coordinates of Hezbollah bunkers in the Dahieh to the IDF during the July war to portraying local civil defence rescuers as sunni militiamen during a sunni-shiite fight at a Beirut university and so on. The only reason for watching that channel is to get the latest updates on Hezbollah activities and positions (besides pro-hezbollah junkies who watch to get their daily fix of the al-manar poison). They have never retracted a story or posted an apology for any of their previous lies, and don't count on them doing it in the future. As for al jazeera, well around half their staff in Beirut used to work either for al manar or NBN (Nabih Berri's Amal propaganda mouthpiece); for instance Abbas Nasser their chief correspondant during the war is a seasoned al-manar veteran. The non-lebanese staff in their bureau is mostly old-style reactionary arabists that essentially come from the same school of misinformation as these formers, so again don't expect something much different. It's a lost cause to try to defend your visit and convince people of your good-intentions (as a side note al manar and a certain current in al jazeera most certainly object to having Beirut as an open, tolerant and cosmopolitan city) . If you followed the debate at LFPM, you'd noticed that you clearly have two camps, and that there isn't much discussion and arguing happening between them. People there know that it's pointless to try and convince the other, so each camp is mainly just repeating and reasserting their own positions over and over again. You can't please everybody, but those that you can please are waiting impatiently to read the rest of your report. and p.s : congratulations on becoming a minor celebrity in the Lebanese and Arab media world! You are referred to as Lisa Goldman in most reports as opposed to the impersonal "zionist informer" label that would get applied to other similar cases. Maybe it's because the al manar producer found you cute :p