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2007-03-06 Europe

France Prohibits Non-Journos From Reporting Violence

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-06 18:52|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...professional journalists..."

Now there's a phrase to chill the hearts of people that believe in freedom of speech.

Who, pray tell, signs the accreditation, hmmm?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-03-06 19:59|| 2007-03-06 19:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow! Another new all-time low for France... and, unlike a lot of other Americans, I actually rather like France.

Posted by Secret Master 2007-03-06 20:20|| 2007-03-06 20:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if "professional journalists" in the darkish place will see this as an insult.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-06 20:27|| 2007-03-06 20:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists.

So if a coupla Froggy "professional journalists" start whaling the piss outta each other, the average Joe can feel free to film away and get it on Youtube or something?

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-06 21:45|| 2007-03-06 21:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Why not film whatever "violence" they see and then e-mail the film to an acquaintence in the US to pose on the Internet?

Let the Phroggies try to prosecute the American who posted it.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-03-06 22:12|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-03-06 22:12|| Front Page Top

#6 The law, proposed by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, is intended to clamp down on a wide range of public order offenses.

This is the man who would be President. It's pretty amazing that the Presidency of France has boiled down to handful of bozos and misfits.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-06 22:24|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-06 22:24|| Front Page Top

#7 I've read two sets of opinions on this:

A) The French govt. is trying to deal with on-going riots / car-burnings by suppressing reporting of same.

B) The are trying to deal with the problem of 'Happy Slapping' - whereby some young thugs beat the crap out of some random passerby, film it on their cell-phone and send the video to other thugs to score thug points.

If it's 'A' - France is in serious trouble Denial is never an effective solution to a problem. If 'B' - how 'bout charging the perps with assault and using the video as evidence. Sheesh!

Posted by DMFD 2007-03-06 22:40|| 2007-03-06 22:40|| Front Page Top

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