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November 10, 2005Someone in the press finally admits it!Okay, it’s the French press, but we can see everyday that the same mindset exists in the US Press, as well: Mr Dassier said his own channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, recently decided not to show footage of burning cars. “Politics in France is heading to the right and I don’t want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television,” Mr Dassier told an audience of broadcasters at the News Xchange conference in Amsterdam today. “Having satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate … Journalism is not simply a matter of switching on the cameras and letting them roll. You have to think about what you’re broadcasting,” he said. Mr Dassier denied he was guilty of “complicity” with the French authorities, which this week invoked an extraordinary state-of-emergency law passed during the country’s war with Algeria 50 years ago. But he admitted his decision was partly motivated by a desire to avoid encouraging the resurgence of extreme rightwing views in France. French broadcasters have faced criticism for their lack of coverage of the country’s worst civil unrest in decades. Public television station France 3 has stopped broadcasting the numbers of torched cars while other TV stations are considering following suit. “Do we send teams of journalists because cars are burning, or are the cars burning because we sent teams of journalists?” asked Patrick Lecocq, editor-in-chief of France 2. Rival news organisations today questioned the French broadcasters’ decision to temper coverage of the riots. John Ryley, the executive editor of Sky News, said his channel would have handled a similar story in Britain very differently. “We would have been all over it like a cheap suit. We would have monstered the story, and I didn’t get the impression that happened in France,” he said. I’ll grant you, it’s a very good and worthwhile thing to ask if the cars are burning because the cameras are there…that never seems to be an issue, however, when the ideological shoe is on the other foot, however. I never see these guys ask if the anti-war, or anti-capitalism, or anti-Bush demonstrations are happening because the cameras are there. http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/11/10/someone-in-the-press-finally-admits-it/trackback/ 11 Responses to “Someone in the press finally admits it!” |
November 10th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
Everybody primps for the camera- everyone.
That said, this is all about teaching the Kefirs a lesson.
November 10th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Anchoress, did you finally get the email and did you understand it? Send your reply to the regular address.
Thanks.
November 10th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
It’s a completely different story for the press when the cars are burning in Baghdad.
November 10th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
Sent this last night re “BLOWBACK”
to censorship/apologists:
Subj: By withholding credit the LSM dares French Islamists
Date: 11/9/05 11:27:08 PM Eastern Standard Time
By withholding credit the LSM dares Islamists to larger
acts in France.
Islamists want their acts of terror covered to create fear.
They are thrilled by the coverage of their power unleased in
Amman today.
Earlier this evening sent email regarding they are using the
children in forefront now. But with the LSM here and there
refusing to give any hint of tie between Islam and the riots
in 300 areas of France and reaching Belgium and Germany now,
won’t they have to begin to do more spectacular and deadly
acts to get the coverage.
They do not like to be ignored.
This today:
Subj: “with attacks on large stores, a newspaper warehouse and a subway station.”
Date: 11/10/05 12:53:12 PM Eastern Standard Time
From your post late last night:
But looters and vandals defied a state of emergency with attacks on large stores, a newspaper warehouse and a subway station.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 11/09/2005 11:03:00 PM |
Rather fits into to my thoughts that not covering is a “dare” or challenge to
perform acts that cannot be ignored.
And this from CQ:
Subj: CQ also points out the escalation of target
Date: 11/10/05 1:25:09 PM Eastern Standard Time
“They also want to claim success for their much-delayed response, but that may prove difficult to demonstrate. The rioters in these areas have begun targeting the French infrastructure instead of just parked cars. The rioters caused blackouts in Lyon by attacking two power stations. In Toulouse and Belfort, schools went up in flames, one by having its entrance rammed by a flaming car. Two days ago, the Lyon subway system got firebombed, although it apparently did not get damaged badly enough to shut the system down.
No doubt that the curfew had an effect on the riots. The French should wonder why it took the Chirac government twelve days to impose the easy first step in addressing the issue of rioting “youths”. It will eliminate the copycat and bandwagon burnings. Adding in a threat of deportation might offer some deterrent for foreigners to join in the overt rioting rather than just the coordination and instigation, but most of the Muslims from the sink estates are French citizens, and most of those natural-born citizens to whom deportation does not apply.”
What we have seen in France over the
Best,
Larwyn
Just check in with sites such as No Pasanra and you will see the escalation
going on - the BLOWBACK.
ISLAMISTS DO NOT LIKE TO BE IGNORED -
THEY WILL GET THE MEDIA’S ATTENTION.
INNOCENT FRENCH WILL PAY THE BUTCHER.
Mr Dassier and his LEFTIST ELITES will
only be wounded at the ballot boxes and
perhaps in the ratings.
November 10th, 2005 at 3:47 pm
[...] We wondered a few days ago why we were only seeing sanitized pictures of the riots, with policemen standing around or firemen dousing a car. Now we know, courtest of the Anchoress: Mr Dassier said his own channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, recently decided not to show footage of burning cars. “Politics in France is heading to the right and I don’t want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television,” Mr Dassier told an audience of broadcasters at the News Xchange conference in Amsterdam today. [...]
November 10th, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Are the bombs going off in Baghdad because the cameras are ther? You bet they are! The terrorists told the press they want to use them to change American public opinion like the Communists did in Viet Nam. Glad the MSM complies…
November 11th, 2005 at 12:56 am
[...] From the Anchoress. A quote from the French media which says they aren’t showing the burning cars because they don’t want any rightwing whackos getting elected in their country because they showed pictures of what was really happening in their news. [...]
November 11th, 2005 at 1:18 am
How does this figure into there none stop showing of video that is months old, often with “live” on the screen. I know that I have seen the same car bomb in Iraq at least 1000 times. I know that I have seen the same footage in the hurricane 1,000,000 times. I am so sick of the media and their one desire to burn Bush and the Republican Party that I have lost even the little respect I once had for a few of them. Chris Mathews has gone off the deep end. I call it the Scooter show because every day you flash past and wait for 3 seconds you will hear the name Scooter. He desperately wants to keep this story alive. How many times do we have to see him going into court with crutches. I hate the 24 hour news networks even including fox. I wish Fox would simply put on a true conservative and give them two hours free of the liberal slant in any form. I think the ratings would go through the roof. O’Reilly is not a true conservative and Hannity has pin head Colmes who keeps on whining. Lets have a real show that states the facts with timeline details, plays back the words of these liberal idiots with appropriate music and flip flops. Let have some fun with them. Until then, I would just as soon go to blogs or watch reruns of the Lone Ranger.
November 11th, 2005 at 2:35 am
I’m so excited..I finally followed all the proper directions and can post..woohoo. Oh, sorry! I’m a bit off topic.
kelleyb
November 11th, 2005 at 9:13 am
On the principle of working around the b******s & their black-out, here are some “French Civil War” photos from a French site (in a JPG file link):
http://goodandhappy.typepad.com/g_as_in_good_h_as_in_happ/2005/11/just_for_the_re.html
It looks ghastly, though of course the photos don’t show the scope of the situation in any one area.
November 17th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
[...] This is, of course, a completely new definition of calm to those of us who regard a flaming car more as a mechanical problem than a political statement. [...]