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Riot coverage 'excessive', says French TV boss
Guardian (England) ^ | November 10, 2005 | Claire Cozens

Posted on 11/10/2005 9:11:05 AM PST by liberallarry

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 TCI, said the prominence given to the rioters on international news networks had been "excessive" and could even be fanning the flames of the violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at media.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; france; fromageavecwhine; hippocrits; insurgency; intifada; jihad; newscoverage; parisriots; quagmire; surrender; terrorism; uprising
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Sensationalism or censorship?
1 posted on 11/10/2005 9:11:05 AM PST by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry

Of course they had no problem with showing the riots in the wake of Katrina.


2 posted on 11/10/2005 9:11:58 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: liberallarry
These people are delusional BUMP!
3 posted on 11/10/2005 9:12:43 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: liberallarry

Todays motto is not all the News that is fit to print, But all the news slanted the way we want you to hear it.


4 posted on 11/10/2005 9:13:38 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: liberallarry

Oh, right. The public has no right to know anything.


5 posted on 11/10/2005 9:15:16 AM PST by hershey
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To: liberallarry

How Soviet of him.


6 posted on 11/10/2005 9:15:52 AM PST by dfwgator
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Of course they had no problem with showing the riots in the wake of Katrina.

At first they did, but later it was a complete news blackout. Of course that's because there wasn't a camera crew willing to go in there, but it would have been blacked out nevertheless, I'm sure. Instead we got Shep crying on the overpass and Geraldo crying wi' de peoples.

7 posted on 11/10/2005 9:16:37 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (The Fault, dear Brutus, is not in the Stars, but in ourselves..)
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To: conservativecorner

No, they have an agenda to stay in power, just like the MSM here:

"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."


8 posted on 11/10/2005 9:16:54 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: sgtbono2002

Now it's "All the news you need to hear."


9 posted on 11/10/2005 9:17:11 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (The Fault, dear Brutus, is not in the Stars, but in ourselves..)
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To: conservativecorner

Like all leftists, they're completely divorced from reality.


10 posted on 11/10/2005 9:17:40 AM PST by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: Great Caesars Ghost

You don't really need to find out what's going on.
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone, eat your dirty laundry.


11 posted on 11/10/2005 9:18:58 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: liberallarry

Stupid French press.

When events happen in Israel and Iraq, they are so keen to show it.

Not only the french press is controlled, it makes false pictures for the world to see.

Antenne 2 (FR) lied during the intifada ....



Serve France right, more should be shown on FOX NEWS and make sure it looks far worse than it is.

Kristopher.


12 posted on 11/10/2005 9:19:20 AM PST by Kristopher
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To: liberallarry

ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS THE PARTY LINE ??

No, wait...that's the NYTIMES


13 posted on 11/10/2005 9:19:54 AM PST by Lexington Green (''America has the watches. We have the time.'' -- Al-Zawahiri)
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To: liberallarry
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.

Leftist scum so confident in nobody stopping him that he actually tells the truth about how he's lying?

14 posted on 11/10/2005 9:19:57 AM PST by MarineBrat (When it rains, New Orleans makes its own gravy.)
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To: liberallarry
I think this guy was trying to say that he dosen't want French citizens to know the truth because if they knew the truth they might make decisions based on the truth.

That is what the MSM calls "objective journalism."
15 posted on 11/10/2005 9:23:45 AM PST by cgbg (Racism is identifying, quantifying, and determining social policy by race.)
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>Sensationalism or censorship?

After the fighting,
when the Muslims are in charge,
they'll still behead him

even though he helped
distract the citizens from
the war around them . . .

16 posted on 11/10/2005 9:26:08 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: liberallarry

These people lack the courage and belief in their country and their place in Western Civilization to fight anything.

My hatred for the French remains unstaunched.


17 posted on 11/10/2005 9:27:50 AM PST by steveyp
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To: liberallarry
...leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians

Now why is it again that it is the Right that is always accused of censorship?

18 posted on 11/10/2005 9:28:54 AM PST by Gator101
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To: liberallarry

Muslims are slacking...they really need to pick up the steam over there in France. Cars? C'mon...let's move to complete buildings and then suicide bombings at the Eifel Tower.

This is weak sauce on their part. Until France wakes the hell up and realizes exactly what is happening it deserves what it gets and that is piles of ashes as high as the sky.


19 posted on 11/10/2005 9:31:51 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: liberallarry

Now we know what happened to Baghdad Bob!


20 posted on 11/10/2005 9:32:02 AM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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