{"id":65540,"date":"2003-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/03\/28\/lattaque-de-la-tv-on-applaudit\/"},"modified":"2003-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-28T00:00:00","slug":"lattaque-de-la-tv-on-applaudit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/03\/28\/lattaque-de-la-tv-on-applaudit\/","title":{"rendered":"L’attaque de la TV : on applaudit<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’attaque de la TV : on applaudit <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t28 mars 2003 Encore une analyse du groupement FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media) sur le comportement des journaux et r\u00e9seaux am\u00e9ricains. FAIR aura \u00e9videmment de plus en plus d’occasions de se manifester \u00e0 propos de la couverture m\u00e9diatique de cette guerre en Irak, puisqu’il appara\u00eet que la question de l’engagement des m\u00e9dias US dans le sens de la cause US, avec les d\u00e9marches de distorsion \u00e9ventuelles qui l’accompagnent, ne fait gu\u00e8re de doute pour un grand nombre d’entre eux.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette fois, FAIR consid\u00e8re la couverture m\u00e9diatique de l’attaque lanc\u00e9e contre la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision irakienne. Cette attaque est \u00e9videmment une violation du droit international, puisque l’attaque d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e d’un tel objectif civil est inacceptable s’il n’y a pas de cause militaire de le faire, et la diffusion \u00e9ventuelle de propagande n’est pas consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme une cause militaire. L’attaque a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e, annonc\u00e9e et observ\u00e9e partout. Elle est applaudie sans restriction par un certain nombre de m\u00e9dias US. (Sans doute les m\u00e9dias US consid\u00e8rent-ils que la TV irakienne est en guerre comme ils le sont eux-m\u00eames, puisque eux-m\u00eames engag\u00e9s compl\u00e8tement derri\u00e8re leur gouvernement, et donc objectif militaire ?)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFAIR nous invite \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer la r\u00e9action des m\u00e9dias US, dans ce texte qui est dat\u00e9 du 27 mars 2003.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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U.S. Media Applaud Bombing of Iraqi TV<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

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\tWhen Iraqi TV offices in Baghdad were hit by a U.S missile strike on March 25, the targeting of media was strongly criticized by press and human rights groups. The general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, Aidan White, suggested that \u00a0\u00bbthere should be a clear international investigation into whether or not this bombing violates the Geneva Conventions.\u00a0\u00bb White told Reuters (3\/26\/03), \u00a0\u00bbOnce again, we see military and political commanders from the democratic world targeting a television network simply because they don’t like the message it gives out.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe Geneva Conventions forbid the targeting of civilian installations– whether state-owned or not– unless they are being used for military purposes. Amnesty International warned (3\/26\/03) that the attack may have been a \u00a0\u00bbwar crime\u00a0\u00bb and emphasized that bombing a television station \u00a0\u00bbsimply because it is being used for the purposes of propaganda\u00a0\u00bb is illegal under international humanitarian law. \u00a0\u00bbThe onus,\u00a0\u00bb said Amnesty, is on \u00a0\u00bbcoalition forces\u00a0\u00bb to prove \u00a0\u00bbthe military use of the TV station and, if that is indeed the case, to show that the attack took into account the risk to civilian lives.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLikewise, Human Rights Watch affirmed (3\/26\/03) that it would be illegal to target Iraqi TV based on its propaganda value. \u00a0\u00bbAlthough stopping enemy propaganda may serve to demoralize the Iraqi population and to undermine the government’s political support,\u00a0\u00bb said HRW, \u00a0\u00bbneither purpose offers the ‘concrete and direct’ military advantage necessary under international law to make civilian broadcast facilities a legitimate military target.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSome U.S. journalists, however, have not shown much concern about the targeting of Iraqi journalists. Prior to the bombing, some even seemed anxious to know why the broadcast facilities hadn’t been attacked yet. Fox News Channel’s John Gibson wondered (3\/24\/03): \u00a0\u00bbShould we take Iraqi TV off the air? Should we put one down the stove pipe there?\u00a0\u00bb Fox’s Bill O’Reilly (3\/24\/03) agreed: \u00a0\u00bbI think they should have taken out the television, the Iraqi television…. Why haven’t they taken out the Iraqi television towers?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMSNBC correspondent David Shuster offered: \u00a0\u00bbA lot of questions about why state-run television is allowed to continue broadcasting. After all, the coalition forces know where those broadcast towers are located.\u00a0\u00bb On CNBC, Forrest Sawyer offered tactical alternatives to bombing (3\/24\/03): \u00a0\u00bbThere are operatives in there. You could go in with sabotage, take out the building, you could take out the tower.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn NBC Nightly News (3\/24\/03), Andrea Mitchell noted that \u00a0\u00bbto the surprise of many, the U.S. has not taken out Iraq’s TV headquarters.\u00a0\u00bb Mitchell’s report cautioned that \u00a0\u00bbU.S. officials say the television headquarters is in a civilian area. Bombing it would further infuriate the Arab world, and the U.S. would need the TV station to get out its message once coalition forces reach Baghdad. Still, allowing Iraqi TV to stay on the air gives Saddam a strong tool to help keep his regime intact.\u00a0\u00bb She did not offer the Geneva Conventions as a reason to avoid bombing a media outlet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAfter the facility was struck, some reporters expressed satisfaction. CNN’s Aaron Brown (3\/25\/03) recalled that \u00a0\u00bba lot of people wondered why Iraqi TV had been allowed to stay on the air, why the coalition allowed Iraqi TV to stay on the air as long as it did.\u00a0\u00bb CNN correspondent Nic Robertson seemed to defend the attack, saying that bombing the TV station \u00a0\u00bbwill take away a very important tool from the Iraqi leadership– that of showing their face, getting their message out to the Iraqi people, and really telling them that they are still in control.\u00a0\u00bb It’s worth noting that CNN, like other U.S. news outlets, provides all these functions for the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNew York Times reporter Michael Gordon appeared on CNN (3\/25\/03) to endorse the attack: \u00a0\u00bbAnd personally, I think the television, based on what I’ve seen of Iraqi television, with Saddam Hussein presenting propaganda to his people and showing off the Apache helicopter and claiming a farmer shot it down and trying to persuade his own public that he was really in charge, when we’re trying to send the exact opposite message, I think, was an appropriate target.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAccording to the New York Times (3\/26\/03), Fox’s Gibson seemed to go so far as to take credit for the bombing of Iraqi TV, suggesting that Fox’s \u00a0\u00bbcriticism about allowing Saddam Hussein to talk to his citizens and lie to them has had an effect.\u00a0\u00bb Fox reporter Major Garrett declared (3\/25\/03), \u00a0\u00bbIt has been a persistent question here, why [Iraqi TV] remains on the air.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tGiven such attitudes, perhaps it’s not surprising that discussions of the legality of attacking Iraqi TV have been rare in U.S. mainstream media. Yet when the White House accused Iraq of violating the Geneva Conventions by airing footage of American POWs, media were eager to engage the subject of international law. It’s a shame U.S. media haven’t held the U.S. government to the same standards.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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