As we bid farewell to 2014, it would be useful to refresh our memory with events that marked this year .knowing that none of them will be mentioned in any TV show or news report

Media recalls an event that turned into fact, but the "events" which do not actually take place are forgettable.

How many articles we have read in 2014, and how many political analysts, whose number is constantly increasing while the social middle-class is shrinking; we have heard everyone talking about political and security scenarios such as electing a new president ahead of the Army Day or Independence Day, while we are now surviving the 9th month without a head of state

How many articles and reports ushering in imminent attacks have we come across? How many bombs did not go off and remained stuck between the lines?

How many analysts, who are nowadays akin to fortune tellers, spread the good news about the end of the Syrian crisis and the near fall of President Bashar al-Assad? Neither did he fall nor the crisis ended.

What about the political, security, social and economic scandals that made the headlines in 2014? They were all forgotten shortly and no one held any writer accountable for the fallacies found in one single piece.

Two decades ago, our era was labeled as the "era of speed"; however, we are actually living in the era of haste.

Some writers tend to seek a scandal at any price; a phenomenon that we are witnessing everyday through the ridiculous magazines that make headlines unlinked to the content.

Everyone is looking for a scandal: the open cut at the top becomes nudity, the transient security incident turns into a dangerous disaster...

Few days ago, some made up reports about finding a dead body at the airport during the tour of Ministers Wael Abou Faour and Ghazi Zeaiter; soon, the rumors were spread.

Many "fabricated news", that were proven baseless later on, went viral on social media, websites and dailies.

But if we keep on reading and believing, that's the biggest scandal ever.