{"id":59084,"date":"2019-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/59084\/otv-correspondents-tweet-causes-controversy"},"modified":"2023-05-11T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:25:35","slug":"otv-correspondents-tweet-causes-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59084\/otv-correspondents-tweet-causes-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"OTV Correspondent&#8217;s Tweet Causes Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"Last night, OTV correspondent Joelle Bou Younes took to Twitter and graced us with her opinion on the recent suicides that have shaken the country. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%82%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%86?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#<\/a><br><\/p>\u2014 Joelle Bou Younes (@joellebouyounes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joellebouyounes\/status\/1202533501398114305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Loosely translated, her tweet reads: <br \/>  <br \/>  &#8220;Can everyone please stop telling us that people are committing suicide here and there because of the living conditions? The situation is bad and we&#8217;re all affected, but people with personal issues are taking their own lives and blaming it on the country. This is my opinion and I am free to express it, no one give me teach me about good manners.&#8221;<br \/>  <br \/>  What do you think of her comment? <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, OTV correspondent Joelle Bou Younes took to Twitter and graced us with her opinion on the recent suicides that have shaken the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":437967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1097],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-59084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-twitterreactions"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OTV Correspondent&#039;s Tweet 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