Well, at least he’s honest…
November 12th, 2005
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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.Frankly, I have always suspected this is what is affectionately called “news judgement” by the folks who actually run MSM. But it is rare for them to admit it.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.
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I agree its rare but by the same token I wished they had exercised that same discretion when they were broadcasting Americans jumping to their deaths on 9/11, over and over again, or the cotnractors bodies burning and hanging piece meal on a bridge, over even the devastation that katrina had wrought.