الاتحاد الكاثوليكي العالمي للصحافة- لبنان اوسيب – لبنان
Antelias, July 15 th, 2004
1- The UCIP-Lebanon announced its support to the movement aiming at reducing the fees of mobile and fixed telephony because this would reduce the costs of communication between people and thus further consolidate the means of close contact.
But what is surprising is that this action only took place after the ownership of the mobile telephony sector had been transferred to the State, which makes us wander why such a campaign was not organized when this sector was in the hands of private companies and who would be the first beneficiary of this reduction.
The UCIP wishes that such a popular and sectoral campaign takes place in the sector of medicines that is a concern for the majority of the Lebanese, especially the middle and poor class because of the huge prices of medicines.
2- The UCIP has accompanied the campaign led against the sexually provocative advertisements and aiming at determining ethics for this sector that comply with the human, social and religious values. But the most dangerous thing in this situation about the advertisements activities is that it goes beyond a simple sexual eroticism to reach other dangers:
– the consuming modes promoted by the ads and that market goods, ideas and lifestyles that are alien to our society; our youth is adopting alien values and aspire to a quick accumulation of wealth and to the unrealistic ideals that the ads are promoting;
– the chaos prevailing in this sector and represented by an ecological, moral and professional pollution, which requires a radical solution to the problem through the development of the Lebanese laws that rule over the sector, with clear and updated texts. A solution that stops the phenomena of fundamentalism that are starting to appear in the acts of sabotage to which are subject the billboards, which is by itself an unhealthy phenomenon that holds dangerous risks for society.
