Monday, May 07, 2007

French marxists start gearing up

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1639538,00.html

"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.
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.
"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."

Found this story on Little Green Footballs. I was saying to a Russian person the other day how bizarre it was that while Socialism/Communism/Marxism is completely discredited in Russia because of the experience 180 million people had firsthand, in western Europe their are millions of people who still crave for it. Presumably Mr Dassier is one of them. You can't trust a communist to tell the truth- they don't believe in the truth. They believe that truth is a construction by interested parties, especially coercive capitalists. All the more reason not to have them in the upper echelons of your news organisation. For everyone outside the fantasy world of marxism, the truth matters. Reporting facts, even bitter and distasteful ones, is essential in healthy societies. Mr Sarkozy needs to quietly and determinedly set about the marxist contagion, and start to destroy its influence in France. He knows as well as anyone what a threat it has been to the French body politic. I wish him success in the enterprise.

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