De l'objectivité des medias

Je résume pour les non-anglophones :

> le correspondant de CNN admet que son reportage du 18 juillet sur les victimes civiles au Liban a été mis en scène de bon en bout ("stage-managed from start to finish") par le Hezbollah.

> Le correspondant de Time Magazine a révélé que le Hezbollah avait une copie des passeports des journalistes et qu'il avait harcelé quelques confrères.

Tant d'objectivité et de liberté laissent pantois et inspirent toute confaince !


CNN "senior international correspondent" Nic Robertson admitted that his anti-Israel report from Beirut on July 18 about civilian casualties in Lebanon, was stage-managed from start to finish by Hizbullah. He revealed that his story was heavily influenced by Hizbullah's "press officer" and that Hizbullah has "very, very sophisticated and slick media operations."

When pressed a few days later about his reporting on the CNN program "Reliable Sources," Robertson acknowledged that Hizbullah militants had instructed the CNN camera team where and what to film. Hizbullah "had control of the situation," Robertson said. "They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn't have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath."

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Another journalist let the cat out of the bag last week. Writing on his blog while reporting from southern Lebanon, Time magazine contributor Christopher Allbritton, casually mentioned in the middle of a posting: "To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hizbullah is launching Katyushas, but I'm loathe to say too much about them. The Party of God has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they've already hassled a number of us and threatened one."

Source : Jerusalem Post (oui, je sais mais lisez l'article avant de critiquer : ils citent des émissions faciles à vérifier)