Mediagazer: Veteran journalist recalls Beirut in 1982 and reflects how the Internet is changing Arab world (Stephen Franklin/The Big Roundtable)

1:40 PM ET, March 29, 2014

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Stephen Franklin / The Big Roundtable:

Veteran journalist recalls Beirut in 1982 and reflects how the Internet is changing Arab world — The Light in Beirut — Up against a wall, waiting to die on a late afternoon in August 1982, a journalist's life stops and then starts over. — Bright, bright light. So bright it blinds me.

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