Posted on 11/21/2005 10:30:54 PM PST by Lorianne
One of France's leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians. Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service LCI, said the prominence given to the rioters on international news networks had been "excessive" and could even be fanning the flames of the violence.
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.
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The new media trying to control the news, tell me it ain't so.
Wow... and they wonder why we hate them so.... or maybe they dont.
Only another incidence of "stating the obvious"!
There you have it. It is much the same on the Western shores of the Atlantic. The media thinks it knows the best way the government should operate and who should be in office.
Sun rises in the east
Pope is Catholic
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.
I want Islamofacist in first place.
By admitting that censorship was designed to avoid helping Le Pen, he is instead helping Le Pen and destroying his own credibility.
He started the deception when he failed, for the past three years, to make public what the government and media both know, e.g., that approximately 100 cars per night for three years have been burned by Islam. The only reason the world ever found out was that Islam miscalculated by burning 4-months quota of cars in 4-weeks, something scary to even the French Govt and Media.
Now here's a question. In his mind, why did he think the sight of burning cars would move the popular opinion to the right? Would it be because the Left was incompetent?
Exactly. They'd rather become prisoners in their own country by a faction of lunatic mohammedan invaders than be saved by their own people who will corral these enemies of the West and deport them. Charles Martel must be spinning at 10,000 rpms in his grave. Talk about a slow, agonizing death wish.
you got it. notice if the rioters had any brains they would make sure none of these journalists cars are touched.
No wonder Kerry feels at home in France.
It's not just the news, it's who controls the news.
Dog bites man story.
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