The foreign press was largely concerned with Lebanese ONTV host Liliane Daoud being deported to Beirut after resigning (or, as Daoud tweeted yesterday, was ousted) from the channel. The New York Times, the Guardian, the Times, Reuters and the BBC all have coverage. “This is a campaign against respectable media and free journalism,” Amer Tamam, editor-in-chief of Daoud’s Al Soura Al Kamla show, told the BBC.

Meanwhile, here at home, the bastion of journalistic integrity known as Al Wafd newspaper, mouthpiece of the fossilized remains of what was once a liberal political party of the same name, tweeted late Monday evening that Daoud was deported over having, what the “newspaper” claims, AIDS. The linked article, however, has since been 404’ed, while the tweet has yet to be deleted.