Dear readers, many of you have asked us about the appearance of Scarlett Haddad, a journalist at L'Orient-Le Jour, on a comedy show on OTV. During the morning show Mrs. Haddad uttered a sentence that was picked up by social media. This sentence deeply hurt many of you and caused uproar on various social networks.
On Thursday morning, Mrs. Haddad personally presented her "sincere apologies" through a Facebook post, to all those who might have been hurt or outraged by this sentence. Nevertheless, she acknowledges the context in which it was pronounced while recognizing that her words could be considered to have been in poor taste.
We would like to remind you that when Scarlett Haddad takes part in a television show, she speaks in an individual capacity and not in the name of L'Orient-Le Jour. Any opinion she might express is solely her own and not that of the newspaper or the editorial staff.
Ideally, we would like to encourage our readers to focus on the bigger, more important picture: the tremendous popular movement for a better Lebanon.
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