Great Moments in Journalistic Integrity
Posted by: Emperor Darth Misha I in EUnuch Idiots, Journaljizzm, Nuke France7:43 pm
(Brought to our attention by LC Mope, Imperial Liaison Officer):
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.
…because nothing can possibly be worse than reporting on something that might question the usefulness and validity of the Great Socialist Experiment™, of course, not even suppressing the truth and lying about current events.
Hey, at least he’s being honest! How often do you see that in an “impeccably credentialed and professional journalist?”
Name one example.
Just one.
Come on, we’ve got all day.
We’ll give you all of Sunday as well.
If you have until next Wednesday, perhaps?
You guys are no fun anymore.
Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service LCI, said the prominence given to the rioters on international news networks had been “excessive” and could even be fanning the flames of the violence.
Because, as we all know, a major factor in the riots were the unruly mobs of far-right extremists torching cars and little old ladies as a result of the irresponsible international media coverage. What? It wasn’t?
Rely on a feckless frogwit to make a point of refusing to cover rioters in, well, a riot, claiming that it would be “excessive” to do so. What wouldn’t be considered excessive, then? What should one report on while rioters are torching hundreds of cars on a nightly basis? Bird migration patterns? The price of milk? The mind boggles. The mind also makes a vow to never be caught within a thousand miles of a fwench “news”cast.
Mr Dassier said his own channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, recently decided not to show footage of burning cars.
“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,” Mr Dassier told an audience of broadcasters at the News Xchange conference in Amsterdam today.
“I will lie, suppress the truth and manipulate every nanosecond of my alleged “news coverage” if it means that left-wingers maintain control! This is what real reporting is all about!”
It looks like our own MSM have finally found a spokesman unafraid to say what they’ve been lying about for years. It figures that he would be fwench.
“Having satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate … Journalism is not simply a matter of switching on the cameras and letting them roll. You have to think about what you’re broadcasting,” he said.
“Facts are secondary, agenda is everything.”
Not even Pravda and Izvestiya were ever that honest, although they played by the same book completely. We’re impressed.
“Do we send teams of journalists because cars are burning, or are the cars burning because we sent teams of journalists?” asked Patrick Lecocq, editor-in-chief of France 2.
“Do we send journalists to fires, train accidents and plane crashes because they happen, or do they happen because we send the journalists?”
Quite frankly, we’ve found ourself wondering from time to time.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to check journalists for incendiary devices before letting them into an area?
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Journalists suck. period. When the bombings happened in Jordan, I was watching the news the next day and they were reporting on the protests…except they NEVER said WHO was protesting WHAT!! It’s infuriating. And how many sources did you have to investigate when the rioting in France started just to find out WHO THE F**K was actually DOING the rioting??? Absolutely ridiculous, and soooo transparent.
and nyahnyah…FIRST
November 12th, 2005 at 7:53 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
just another way for the liberal/leftist MSM from letting the TRUTH be known about the Muslims…gotta protect their money maker, the MSM does….after all without the stoneage Muslims there wouldnt be anything “news worthy” to report
November 12th, 2005 at 7:56 pmUsing Netscape 7.2 on Windows XP
What is really disgusting about this “journalist’s” admission is he is tacitly implying that non-liberals are nothing more than primates to be led.
He’s applying a rule of primate study to humans. I think it was first stated by Goodall, but, it could have been to other waste of time whose name I can’t remember. Anyway, the rule says that a person studying primates influences the primates by their very presense, so, the studier has to do everything in their power to avoid actually letting the primates know they are being studied.
Just mull that around in your head for a bit, and then, reread what most journalists have been saying about how they cover the news.
I’m not going to even TRY to get into how Dialectic Materialism also affects how they view people. That would just take too damn long.
November 12th, 2005 at 8:00 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP
Far be it for any MSM body to report anything anti-ROP (my ass!).
November 12th, 2005 at 8:14 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 on Windows XP
If this is not the epitome of ASS-hattery, I don’t know what is!
November 12th, 2005 at 8:41 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
An in depth study of the social and political ramifications…. awww the hell with it, has anyone been keeping a running total on how many cars have been torched?
November 12th, 2005 at 9:08 pmUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP
I’m thinking that given the nature of j
November 12th, 2005 at 10:10 pmournalismjizzalism these days that they’ll soon twist it to read: “Right wing Fascists set cars belonging to poor youths on fire, causing the oppressed youths to rise up in anger.” It’s all in how you sequence the action - response. No need to really put things in the correct order, just ask Mike “Jabba” Moore. He’s made fortunes by reporting non sequiturs as facts.Using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
In a just world we’d be counting bullet holes in “journalists” rather than car-b-ques.
November 12th, 2005 at 10:13 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
He wouldn’t want a good story obscured by the facts.
November 12th, 2005 at 11:53 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
So, being just a mope, can someone explain to me how the daily body count, the daily suicide bomber, and the daily eport on the alledged torture does not help the enemy?
Are these leftists admitting that certain words can cause the tide of the war to change?
It’s Treason. Plain and simple.
By the by, I am of the opinion that the protests in Jordan are the turning point.
November 13th, 2005 at 12:09 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000
Please forgive my nasty tone, but shouldn’t every frigging school in Iraq have a hero’s name on it? Why the $@^% don’t they count how many schools are built? When do they count the people that voted? Where are the numbers for the murderers that are killed? How do they decide what is reported? Who made these people important?
Nevermind. Just blowing off steam.
M.O.A.B.
November 13th, 2005 at 1:22 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000
fox just reported the fuckin sub-human animals rammed a burning car into a retirement home.
November 13th, 2005 at 1:34 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 on Windows 2000
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November 13th, 2005 at 1:38 amUsing WordPress 1.5.2
I’m afraid that the burning cars outside my window, because they are unreported, do not exist. Likewise the unrestrained muslim
November 13th, 2005 at 1:50 amterrorismprotests are also non existant. I don’t really know what you’re bitching about. Flaming grannies are also a fig newton of your imagination. There is no god but Marx and Stalin is his prophet, or something.I mean how stupid does the press assume the French people to be? Oops, forget I asked
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It goes farther than LCI.
TF1 no longer accepts public comment
Canal+ “tidies up” politically incorrect rioters
France Inter prefers not to cover rioting directly at all
Information flow in Frogystan seems to be headed in a troubling direction. Recall that France stands with China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Iran on the issue of future internet governance - is this really the example which should lead?
November 13th, 2005 at 3:36 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows 2000
Well we in this country are blessed with “French like reporting and opinion commentary too…
Watch Dowd with a straight face try to explain how how man are biologically unsuited to be leaders on the Larry King show thanks to the efforts of the The Political Teen…
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Wow. Looks like the France of Murat and Verdun is finally fini. Who would have thunk it.
Just wait-and I am guessing you will not have to wait too long-before power plants and really “hard” targets go “spoldy”. When the lights go out “de facto” as well as “de jure”, even the technocratic rulers from above will not be able to hide the truth. Let “The First Daughter of the Church” again read “ad Lumina Christi”.
But don’t be fooled. France is NOT a democratic Republic-it is very much an elitist plutocracy. Let me translate that into Anglo-Saxon; Police State. Very little goes on without the full knowledge of the very large, deeply ingrained and powerful security forces. It will not take too much digging to discover that this powerful institutions-including the Army-and not at all pleased at the “response” of their political masters. Aux barrides?
Liberals always seem to make one fatal error-they just can’t seem to help pissing off the people with guns. Darwin was evidently right at least about his big turtles. Even ten thousand generations of hardening shell willl not stop a .45 slug.
0dk0
November 13th, 2005 at 5:45 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
How about this bombastic beat-off?
November 13th, 2005 at 6:31 amUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
Didn’t this pissant once run the editorial page of the NY Slimes?
November 13th, 2005 at 8:47 amUsing Mozilla 1.7.2 on Windows 98
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November 13th, 2005 at 8:49 amUsing WordPress 1.5
And yet these Feckless Fwog Fuckwits have no problem showing Jumpin’ Jihadis blowing up innocent civilans,aid workers and Coalition of the Willing troops when it’s not in Gay Paree’.
They breathless reported the “TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POSSIBLE DEAD FROM NEW ORLEANS BECAUSE OF BUSH’S HATRED OF BLACKS!!!” and then quietly slunk out of town when those Poor, Oppressed Blacks™, floating en masse down the Mississippi, didn’t materialize and it was revealed that LOCAL & STATE officials were the ones responsible for the post-Katrina disaster.
Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Journaljizmer.
November 13th, 2005 at 9:26 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP
Oh, almost forgot to link to this Al-Socialist Presse article about the Socialist Shitstains’ Selective Censorship™.
November 13th, 2005 at 9:28 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP
I wonder if TF1 bill themselves as an alternative to the state run stations?
November 13th, 2005 at 11:21 amUsing Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP
Fresh off the plane on my first trip to SE Asia I was read the riot-act about giving gasoline to “stranded” reporters.
They’ll beg, they’ll even promise to mention your name but do not loan gas to reporters.
The look on my face must have been dumber than usual, because one of the guys sharing the cattle car filled in the blanks on how while doing a story reporters loved to stand in front of anything that was burning. They’d find an old junker of a car or jeep or the holy grail…an old wrecked chopper…douse the sucker with gas, set it afire and roll cameras.
Syphon their own gasoline they would, and be truly stranded until some dumbass boot stopped by and gave them enough to get going again.
The medium is the message.
November 13th, 2005 at 1:08 pmUsing Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP