More appropriately deep la merde.
La Merde Profond!
Zut Alors! My Citroën!!
Posted on 11/12/2005 2:49:40 PM PST by NewMediaFan
PARIS (AP) - Unrest wracking France for more than two weeks presents a tough challenge to French media.
At least two television stations scaled back broadcasting images of flaming vehicles - a mainstay of coverage - to avoid stoking violence. Some channels decided not to provide daily police figures on the number of cars burned overnight, in the thousands since troubles began Oct. 27.
Is it self-censorship? Or a sense of responsibility?
Television stations that are holding back deny any influence from police, who insist publicity for the riots has fueled "copycat" violence. Instead, the stations say they don't want to play into the hands of rampaging youths seeking coverage of what they see as their exploits...
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Won't be long and there won't be no damned French media.
You got it absolutely right.
French people are obsessed with technical and political secrecy. The shortage for printed material for school research is so bad that kids rip pages off of library books to keep for themselves, keeping an edge over others who can't have access then.
Welcome to "free" education
I'd be interested in knowing how many holidays to France are being cancelled.
Well, it's nice to see that our media isn't covering itself anymore. It's covering someone else's media.
Not having media coverage is not helping.
Most "YOUTHS" are wishing to go on ever bigger rampage as to be on TV.
The reason there is censorship is the damage are getting worse.more cars and buildings burnt last night than the night before.
Churches and synaguogues wrecked.
People being harassed.
also, the image of France in "LA MERDE", is embarassing Chirac and de Villepin (he is a man by the way)
Kristopher..
Too late. Those rioters are actually only copying what their kins did in the Middle East... Being a "good journalists", of course French TV showed the Muslim "freedom warrior" in Iraq, Palestine, etc...
I'd like to think it was a sense of responsibility, but we don't have that here so I don't think I could recognize it.
So, the media doesn't want to STOKE violence in France by covering what's happening? What's with their one sided coverage of Iraq then? They sure have no problem with statistics and images of burning cars there.
Those "YOUYHS" do not watch french TV anyhow.
They watch AL Jazeera and Al MINAR...
Kristopher.
More appropriately deep la merde.
My point, while being cynical as you guys can see, is that the French are doinking around. Soon, if they don't crack down hard, their country WILL be gone. And then, what good will the "French" media be? It will be he Wahadi Jihadi Times. Their citizens need to know the extent of the damage and disruption that's occurring. Their newspapers and other news organizations don't need to be quiet, they need to broadcast loud and clear what is happening to France.
More appropriately deep la merde.
"More appropriately deep la merde."
Jusqu'au cou......(up their neck).
Kristopher.
It's neither. It's denial of reality. If they don't cover it, it isn't happening.
Chriaq is in La Conneries Profound!
Some channels decided not to provide daily police figures on the number of cars burned overnight, in the thousands since troubles began Oct. 27.
good lord, they can be taught?
To be fair, we would bitch if our news went wall to wall with evey nick, scratch, beheading, flat tire that happened to our armed forces. (Oh wait, they already do that, sorry)
I think it is somewhat responsible of the French to not have a Day 15 of rioting media fest.
Mention the car tally, the latest government talking head sound clip and move on.
The fact that the French media is not keeping count of burnt cars or showing the burning of cars is actually quite responsible. Too bad the worldwide media, especially the AP and Reuters, don't have any such compunction regarding the war in Iraq. They have instead gleefully keeping counts of dead American soldiers and can't wait to show smoking cars from their hotel rooms. Totally disgraceful!
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