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2005-11-07 Europe

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Posted by tipper 2005-11-07 10:46|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not new; the cable news channel I-tÃ©lÃ© and LCI (and thus its parent TF1) had already announced they would control information concerning this, so not to incitate the rioters; also, the popular tf1.fr forum has been silenced, because things were getting out of hand (but that doesn't prevent it from running a communique by the trotskyst "antiracist" org Sos-racisme).

From http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/

French media : heads we win, tails you lose
posted by U*2 @ 11:31 AM

Portions of French media are being overrun by true public sentiment (just as the Establishment was overrun by popular ire during the referendum on the European Constitution). Talk radio and web forums are coming down squarely in favor of Interior Minister Sarkozy with calls for a heavy hand when dealing with rioters. The French preSS is having none of this. LibÃ©ration PropagandaStaffel and Le Monde Al-Jazeera on the Seine are dripping with compassion for humiliated French youth. On the TF1 - LCI news site, flagrant censorship in the face of dissenting opinions is barely concealed behind a statement asking readers to be patient because the web forum is overloaded and cannot take anymore comments. Rather than accept any further comments in favor of law and order (running 10-1 against the rioters before the shutdown), they prefer to close the forum:
Chers lecteurs, depuis le dÃ©but des violences en banlieue, vous Ãªtes excessivement nombreux Ã rÃ©agir sur notre site infos. Nous vous en remercions. Mais compte tenu du nombre de rÃ©actions envoyÃ©es, il est devenu impossible de les publier avec toute la rigueur, l'objectivitÃ© et la rÃ©activitÃ© qui caractÃ©risent un forum de qualitÃ©. Nous sommes donc contraints de suspendre momentanÃ©ment la publication des avis sur ce sujet hautement sensible. Nous vous remercions de votre comprÃ©hension et de votre fidÃ©litÃ©.

More media censorship on the way
posted by U*2 @ 1:17 PM

French cable TV news channel i-tele is openly considering showing fewer images and less video footage of the riots claiming that such coverage might be fanning the flames. The fact is that they do not want to continue showing what the French citizenry is really like in these battling suburbs. The last two days have given free reign to images of violent vulgarity spouting youths, vowing vengeance on French society, along with a new media figure -- the djellaba garbed neighborhood mediators who claim they will not deal with Sarkozy.

Protection from bruised feelings reality sought
posted by Joe N. @ 1:46 PM

Another tale from the land of the cultural exception.
LCI: unknown meaningful people (the brave enarchy) are cheesed off that CNN and Russian TV networks are covering Francifada.
How DARE anyone else know about this!

French Journalists' "Concerns": A Desire to Put Events "Into Perspective", to Not Pour "Oil on the Fire", and to "Appease" posted by Erik @ 4:04 AM

Responsable de l'information sur France Inter, GeneviÃ¨ve Goetzinger insiste sur le "travail permanent de mise en perspective".
writes the AFP (merci Ã Arcturus)

Putting events "into perspective".

The journalists' "concerns".

A desire to "appease".

Not pouring "oil on the fire".

At the France Inter radio station, it is pointed out that in recent days several programs â¦ have presented the positive experiences taken on a social and a cultural level in the banlieue towns.
Let us be generous for a moment and not call this flagrant censorship (even when media bigwigs turn off their comments section, so as not to show dissenting opinions â running 10-1 against the rioters â to the overriding "correct" thought of hand-wringing compassion with humiliated French youth).

Still: all this would be a lot more palatable, of course, if members of the French media, the French Ã©lite, and France's society at large made an effort to be somewhat consistent with their outlook and not use double standards. Double standards that happen to be self-serving, needless to say, and favor themselves.

As it happens, whenever a drama befalls the United States, there are few voices asking to put the events in question into perspective.
As for "positive experiences", a Wall Street Journal column and a website have existed for the past couple of years giving the good news from Iraq and Afghanistan, and the least that can be said is that French leaders, citizens, and media outlets have not gone out of the way to broach that subject.
Au contraire, the desire to put things into perspective rarely touches Uncle Sam, as the following in-depth articles can ascertain.

The 60th Anniversary Celebration of Le Monde

The daily's Iraq coverage
The daily's TV guide
The daily's film reviews
The daily's VIP portraits
The daily's Le Monde 2 magazine
The daily's Letters to the Editor section
The daily's 60 years in 60 articles series
The daily's birth and origins

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-11-07 11:32|| 2005-11-07 11:32|| Front Page Top

Talk radio and web forums are coming down squarely in favor of Interior Minister Sarkozy with calls for a heavy hand when dealing with rioters.

Remember that Sarkozy is not fully French, in that he is the son of Hungarian immigrants. He may still have his family jewels attached. He would therefore stand out amongst the castrati like Chirac and DeVillepin.

Posted by BigEd 2005-11-07 12:37|| 2005-11-07 12:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Sarko is right wing only by french standards (he's somewhat pro free-market and atlantist), but he's also a media whore, pro-islam (he wishes to "accomodate" the 1905 law on Church-State separation so mosque can be funded by the State, to enforce affirmative action geared toward muslims,...), he's on a quest for the presidency. Some say he's a "young Jacques Shiraq".

Of course, "de Villepin" is his rival, and a complete POS.
In the media race, JFM is right to say that the "progresssist" establishment has sided with "De Villepin" against thim, so I guess that's something positive to be said for Sarko; in this whole mess he may adopt a tough stance (though the gvt apparently chosed the other way around), but I still don't like him much.

Sad when you imagine he's so far the only credible alternative in conservative mvt.

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-11-07 13:43|| 2005-11-07 13:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Seriously good work five0eightnine. Thanks.

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-07 17:03|| 2005-11-07 17:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm sure that the members of the press will be equally understanding when the violence spreads to their own homes, cars and tv stations... which it will. I won't feel any sympathy for any of them.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-07 17:24|| 2005-11-07 17:24|| Front Page Top

#6 you would think that the Insurance companies would have hired their own hit squads by now.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-07 17:40|| 2005-11-07 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Remember censorship is routed around.

When the news is censored people go to real sources of news, not the state medja. When they find real news (i.e. the future is less suprising) they do not go back.

More Blog readers = More correct-wingers.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-11-07 20:18|| 2005-11-07 20:18|| Front Page Top

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