{"id":65938,"date":"2004-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/16\/franchement-est-ce-que-les-reportages-sur-les-civils-irakiens-tues-par-des-marines-cest-du-bon-journalisme\/"},"modified":"2004-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"franchement-est-ce-que-les-reportages-sur-les-civils-irakiens-tues-par-des-marines-cest-du-bon-journalisme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/16\/franchement-est-ce-que-les-reportages-sur-les-civils-irakiens-tues-par-des-marines-cest-du-bon-journalisme\/","title":{"rendered":"Franchement, est-ce que les reportages sur les civils irakiens tu\u00e9s par des Marines, c’est du bon journalisme ?<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franchement, est-ce que les reportages sur les civils irakiens tu\u00e9s par des Marines, c’est du bon journalisme ?<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

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\t16 avril 2004 Nous conseillons \u00e0 nos lecteurs de lire avec une attention soutenue et l’esprit clair ce texte de FAIR<\/a>, que nous publions ci-dessous, qui rapporte et commente une interview du r\u00e9dacteur en chef de la cha\u00eene TV Al Jazeera, Ahmed Al-Sheik, par une consoeur de CNN, Daryn Kagan. Ce texte est un document, ce que dit Kagan \u00e0 Al-Sheik est sid\u00e9rant, dans le sens originel de ce mot qui est de mettre dans un \u00e9tat de stup\u00e9faction (ou de sid\u00e9ration) gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l’influence des astres. Ce qu’elle dit, la fa\u00e7on dont elle le dit, l’aplomb qu’il y a dans ses paroles, c’est l’\u00e9vidence m\u00eame, sans l’avoir vue ni entendue, nous fait penser que cette Kagan et, avec elle, tout le syst\u00e8me qui la nourrit et fa\u00e7onne sa pauvre psychologie, sont d’un astre diff\u00e9rent du n\u00f4tre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCe que dit Kagan \u00e0 Al-Sheik-Al Jazerra ? En gros : mais arr\u00eatez de vous int\u00e9resser aux civils tu\u00e9s par les Marines, \u00e7a n’int\u00e9resse personne (tout de m\u00eame : \u00ab with all due respect to the Iraqi civilians who have lost their lives<\/em> \u00bb) ; c’est du mauvais journalisme au sens moral du terme, le bon journalisme est de filmer les terroristes’ qui, par leur action, obligent les malheureux Marines \u00e0 descendre des civils irakiens. Tout cela, comme on le rapporte en substance, doit \u00eatre martel\u00e9 avec la plus compl\u00e8te, la plus enti\u00e8re bonne foi. C’est, simplement dit, effrayant : la bonne foi sans bosse ni plaie, la bonne conscience aseptis\u00e9e de ces gens constituent une chose qui n’a pas de pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent dans l’Histoire. (Nous voulons dire : les massacres de civils, il y a tous les pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents qu’on veut, l’Histoire en est pleine ; mais cette fa\u00e7on, non pas de les nier, mais de leur d\u00e9nier le moindre int\u00e9r\u00eat en soi, quasiment en professionnel du journalisme, et avec la bonne foi qu’on d\u00e9crit ici, voil\u00e0 qui a de quoi faire frissonner. La barbarie moderne se trouve l\u00e0, pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tTout cela est bien r\u00e9sum\u00e9 par cette parole du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Kimmit, porte-parole de la coalition, recommandant aux bons \u00e9l\u00e8ves que nous devrions \u00eatre d’\u00e9viter les mauvaises fr\u00e9quentations, et disant : \u00ab Change the channel to a legitimate, authoritative, honest news station. The stations that are showing Americans intentionally killing women and children are not legitimate news sources. That is propaganda, and that is lies.<\/em> \u00bb La phrase est lumineuse : la propagande, le mensonge ne sont pas de propagander ou de mentir, c’est de montrer \u00ab Americans intentionally killing women and children<\/em> \u00bb. Ces Am\u00e9ricains, semble dire Kimmit, existent bien, ils tuent bien, intentionnellement, etc, mais le fait de les montrer est pur mensonge, propagande sans frein, etc. Tout cela, dit tranquillement, bonne foi, bonne conscience, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLisez le texte de FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism<\/em>) ci-apr\u00e8s<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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CNN to Al Jazeera: Why Report Civilian Deaths?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\tBy FAIR, April 15, 2004<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAs the casualties mount in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, Qatar-based Al Jazeera has been one of the only news networks broadcasting from the inside, relaying images of destruction and civilian victims including women and children. But when CNN anchor Daryn Kagan interviewed the network’s editor-in-chief, Ahmed Al-Sheik, on Monday (4\/12\/04) a rare opportunity to get independent information about events in Fallujah she used the occasion to badger Al-Sheik about whether the civilian deaths were really \u00a0\u00bbthe story\u00a0\u00bb in Fallujah.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAl Jazeera has recently come under sharp criticism from U.S. officials, who claim the Iraqi casualties are 95 percent \u00a0\u00bbmilitary-age males\u00a0\u00bb (AP, 4\/12\/04). \u00a0\u00bbWe have reason to believe that several news organizations do not engage in truthful reporting,\u00a0\u00bb CPA spokesman Dan Senor said (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4\/14\/04). \u00a0\u00bbIn fact it is no reporting.\u00a0\u00bb Senior military spokesman Mark Kimmitt had a suggestion for Iraqis who saw civilian deaths on Al Jazeera (New York Times, 4\/12\/04): \u00a0\u00bbChange the channel to a legitimate, authoritative, honest news station. The stations that are showing Americans intentionally killing women and children are<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tnot legitimate news sources. That is propaganda, and that is lies.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tActing as the substitute anchor on CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Reports, Kagan began the interview by asking Al-Sheik to respond to those accusations, citing U.S. officials \u00a0\u00bbsaying the pictures and the reporting that Al Jazeera put on the air only adds to the sense of frustration and anger and adds to the problems in Iraq, rather than helping to solve them.\u00a0\u00bb After Al-Sheik defended Al Jazeera’s work as \u00a0\u00bbaccurate\u00a0\u00bb and the images as representative of \u00a0\u00bbwhat takes place on the ground,\u00a0\u00bb Kagan pressed on: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbIsn’t the story, though, bigger than just the simple numbers, with all due respect to the Iraqi civilians who have lost their lives the story bigger than just the numbers of people who were killed or the fact that they might have been killed by the U.S. military, that the insurgents, the people trying to cause problems within Fallujah, are mixing in among the<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tcivilians, making it actually possibly that even more civilians would be killed, that the story is what the Iraqi insurgents are doing, in addition to what is the response from the U.S. military?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCNN’s argument that a bigger story than civilian deaths is \u00a0\u00bbwhat the Iraqi insurgents are doing\u00a0\u00bb to provoke a U.S. \u00a0\u00bbresponse\u00a0\u00bb is startling. Especially in light of official U.S. denials of civilian deaths, video footage of women and children killed by the U.S. military is evidence that needs to be seen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAnd Al Jazeera is not alone in reporting a reality very different from the one U.S. officials describe. Authorities have been able to keep a tight rein on the information flow from Fallujah, with only one small television network pool in the city that \u00a0\u00bbtravels and operates\u00a0\u00bb under the watch of the Marines (Television Week, 4\/12\/04). (It’s noteworthy that the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\thas reportedly demanded, as a condition for lifting the siege of Fallujah, that Al Jazeera cameras be removed from the city IslamOnline.net, 4\/9\/04.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBut independent journalists reporting from Fallujah have described a scene consistent with the one broadcast by Al Jazeera. Rahul Mahajan, a U.S. journalist in Fallujah, estimated that of the 600 Iraqis killed in Fallujah, 200 were women and 100 young children, with many of the adult male casualties also non-combatants. He reported witnessing \u00a0\u00bba young woman, 18 years old, shot in the head\u00a0\u00bb and \u00a0\u00bba young boy with massive internal bleeding\u00a0\u00bb at a clinic (CommonDreams.org, 4\/12\/04). Mahajan recounted that during the \u00a0\u00bbcease-fire,\u00a0\u00bb \u00a0\u00bbAmericans were attacking with heavy artillery but primarily with snipers\u00a0\u00bb with ambulances among the<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\ttargets. The sniper activity was also reported by U.S. journalist Dahr Jamail (NewStandardNews.net, 4\/11\/04): \u00a0\u00bbFallujah residents say Marines are opening fire randomly on unarmed civilians and have attacked clearly marked ambulances.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWhen reports from the ground are describing hundreds of civilians being killed by U.S. forces, CNN should be looking to Al Jazeera’s footage to see if it corroborates those accounts not badgering Al Jazeera’s editor about why he doesn’t suppress that footage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t[Notre recommandation est que ce texte doit \u00eatre lu avec la mention classique \u00e0 l’esprit, Disclaimer: In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only..]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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