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Weird stuff on french teevee : what the...?
Honestly, I missed it (I do not watch much tv news anymore, especially public channels), but this has surprized many people; the article linked and its downloadable vids are in french, but there is an auto-translation button (expect not-so-good results). Meat of the article is that the french teevees interviewed the daughters of the disabled 56 years old woman who was set on fire in an attacked bus (and who wasn't muslim despite what has been said, her name is Joëlle Mallard), and offered two diverging versions about the religion of the victim. The France 3 channel first interviewed two girls with judeo-christian firstnames, Yaël (which incidentally is a jewish version of Joëlle) and Anastasia, who appear moved and disturbed during the interview. Theses two girls were also interviewed in newspaper, so there is no doubt they exist and are her daughters. However, 30 minutes later, the TF1 and France 2 channels only talked about one daughter, and aired an interview with a girl named Fadella, who not only has a muslim first name, but also wears typically north african clothes (and is more casual in her interview, to the point some oversuspicious viewers thought she was an actress). No mention is made of Yaël and Anastasia. Now, Ms. Mallard can certainly have three daughters, and one of her can certainly be born of a muslim man or a convert, so this is not troubling in itself. I have no real doubt Fadella is her daughter too. What's disturbing is the idea of a possible manipulation. Did the two channels which only mentioned her muslim daughter intend to lessen the racist and "anti french" aspect of that attack, by "islamizing" the victim through her family? Usually, France 2 and France 3 share the same footages, filmed by France 3 regional crews, and have the same redaction and thus the same editorial line. Why did they not show the same vids, as they usually do? I'm not saying there was a manipulation, it just it is curious. Btw, french tv is not above manipulation... in fact, France 2 is at the heart of a huge scandal, the Al dura death (the Netzarim crossroad shooting), in which the public channel has been at leat passively complicit with the most important paleostinian "blood libel" of the second intifada war. (for a reminder of that case, see http://www.truthnow.org/) Am I paranoid or bigoted, or what? Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-06 |
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