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Unrest Forces French Media to Confront Tough Questions Over Coverage
AP News ^ | Nov 12, 2005 | Elaine Ganley

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at ap.tbo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; insurgency; intifada; jihad; parisriots; quagmire; surrender; terrorism; uprising
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To: Herodian

What they should show is the 400 or so rioters that are behind bars.


22 posted on 11/12/2005 3:35:40 PM PST by listenhillary ("Mainstream media" is creating it's own reality~everything sucks)
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To: NewMediaFan
Hmmmm..

During the Rodney King riots. The MSM repeatedly played the beating tape to inflame further rioting...
23 posted on 11/12/2005 3:40:16 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Conservatives are from earth. Liberals are from Uranus.)
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To: NewMediaFan

Via Belmont Club:

French Journalist: "Politics in France is heading to the right and I don’t want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television," Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service TCI, says. ... Hence Dassier’s channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, has decided not to show footage of burning cars. Dassier also criticised the “excessive” coverage of the riots by international (read: Anglo-Saxon) news networks. ... Early this week the public television station France 3 had already stopped broadcasting the daily number of torched cars, while other TV stations followed suit. "Do we send teams of journalists because cars are burning, or are the cars burning because we sent teams of journalists?"

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24 posted on 11/12/2005 4:04:00 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Fenris6

Thanks. That explains a lot.


25 posted on 11/12/2005 4:14:27 PM PST by NewMediaFan (Fake but accurate)
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To: Kristopher
de Villepin (he is a man by the way)

You sure? You could not prove to me he ever had (let alone has) a pair.

26 posted on 11/12/2005 4:40:07 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: NewMediaFan; All
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27 posted on 11/12/2005 4:47:11 PM PST by backhoe (Anyone recall "A Clockwork Orange?")
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To: NewMediaFan
This explains the media "blackout". The french are worried about their Christmas tourism.

Riots leave mark on French economy .

"More than two weeks of rioting by youths in France have left a mark on the country's less than shining economy."

"The direct losses -- despite spectacular pictures of buses and carpet warehouses ablaze -- are small. It is France's image that has suffered the greatest damage."

"Though it markets itself worldwide as a land of luxury, culture and savoir-vivre, France has now been seen pocked with poverty and violence. The French tourist industry fears that business may fall off during the important Christmas season as a result."

28 posted on 11/12/2005 5:46:57 PM PST by Earthdweller ("West to Islam" Cake. Butter your liberals, slowly cook France, stir in Europe then watch it rise.)
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To: Fenris6

"French Journalist: "Politics in France is heading to the right and I don’t want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television,"

Hey, it's great to see the French don't have the leftist bias in the news media that we have here.


29 posted on 11/12/2005 7:51:20 PM PST by popdonnelly
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