Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem al-Thani, who headed an Arab delegation to try to broker an end to the fighting that left 65 dead, told the media it had a responsibility to "calm tempers rather than escalate" matters.
And Naseer al-Asaad, editor of the pro-government Al-Mustaqbal paper, which was shut down by the opposition Hezbollah during the fighting, said "the media is part of the political conflict in the country.
"Professional objectivity" has become rare, he said.
Al-Mustaqbal, Future Television and Radio Orient are all owned by Saad Hariri, a Sunni Muslim and leader of the parliamentary ruling majority.
The opposition came under heavy criticism for attacking the media outlets, with even some pro-opposition newspapers condemned the move.
"We must speak out to protest and condemn the unjustified and unacceptable attacks on some of the media and cultural institutions in Beirut," the editor in chief of As-Safir newspaper, Talal Salman, wrote in an editorial.
Employees of the stations gathered on the steps of Future News in protest in the days that followed.
Sahar Khatib, a news talk show host on Future, made a moving appeal on another news show.
"You cannot silence a God-given voice... Who represents our voice now," she asked, calling on people to take a stand.
Future television went back on the air at 4:30 pm on Tuesday from studios it had in unaffected areas of the city.
"We are back and the word is our weapon," said the news anchor.
The media war, however, was not totally one-sided as armed battles spread throughout the country.
In the predominanly Sunni northern port city of Tripoli, cable companies stopped broadcasting Hezbollah's Al-Manar station.
Shaza, 50, called her cable company demanding to receive it.
"I want to see what they are saying, whether or not I like them," she told the company.
"He told me he would rather I take my money elsewhere than unblock the station," she said.
An employee from the Cable al-Madina company in northern Lebanon told AFP, "We didn't make the decision. They did when they shut down Future. We switched Al-Manar back on when Future came back on the air."
Another northern Lebanese cable company employee said, "We went with the pulse of the street. Tensions were very high and we thought that keeping Al-Manar on would stir up trouble."
The tense media environment and the violence have put journalists and cameramen at risk.
Wadih Sling, 35, who works with Al-Balad newspaper was beaten up on the job.
"I was standing on the side snapping shots and they ran after me and beat me up, without even asking what paper I am with," he said.
"My job is to get the voices of people across through photographs. When people are doing something they are not proud of, they come at you.
"If they have something they want to show, they usher you in," he added.
Ayman al-Mawla, a cameraman with Al-Jazeera took bullets to the arm and shoulder when his car came under heavy gunfire in west Beirut.
"We arrived to where we had heard gunshots and 10 to 15 gunmen opened fire on us," Mawla told AFP, adding that he was not sure that the attackers knew he was media.
"We don't feel the drive or comfortable in covering this war that is pitting Lebanese against each other. We are Lebanese at the end of day," he said.
Mawla felt strongly that the media has become the victim of injustice in this war.
"If you put a press card on your car, you get beaten up. If you don't, then you're the enemy," he said.
"There is no protection for journalists in this country. You are vulnerable to a humiliating or deadly incident at any time," he added.
