Daily Star sneakily changes a story after I mocked them
May 14th, 2012
AJ sent me this: “In a post dated today you quoted an article writen in the Daily Star:
“Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called for calm in Tripoli through several statements on his Twitter account … “
linked to the article at this url:
The reference to any ‘tweets has been deleted and the sentence rewritten:
“Separately, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called for calm and self-restraint on the part of Tripolitans, but also criticized the security services’ recent behavior.
In a statement released by Hariri’s press office, he said, “The closure of roads, random sit-ins and drawing weapons on the people of Tripoli is rejected, just as is rejected the way Shadi Mawlawi was arrested.”"
“Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called for calm in Tripoli through several statements on his Twitter account … “
linked to the article at this url:
The reference to any ‘tweets has been deleted and the sentence rewritten:
“Separately, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri called for calm and self-restraint on the part of Tripolitans, but also criticized the security services’ recent behavior.
In a statement released by Hariri’s press office, he said, “The closure of roads, random sit-ins and drawing weapons on the people of Tripoli is rejected, just as is rejected the way Shadi Mawlawi was arrested.”"

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