rapport<\/a> que fait Grey de l’incident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe evening prior to the event, I sent an email to the Office of External Relations, the press office of the CSIS, to register as a member of the press, in accordance with the instructions given on the CSIS web site. Early Monday morning, I telephoned the office to confirm my registration and was told I had been included on the list of press members registered to cover the panel discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHowever, when I went to the press table 30 minutes before the scheduled start of the event, I was told by H. Andrew Schwartz, deputy director for external relations of the CSIS, that I was not on the list and that I could not attend as a member of the press. When I explained that I had registered and received confirmation that morning, Mr. Schwartz flatly denied that this had occurred.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI asked whether I could cover the event regardless, and he said I could not because the policy of the CSIS was to admit only those members of the press with federalized credentials. He claimed that this policy is stated on the organization’s web site. (I could find no such statement when I subsequently checked the CSIS web site.) When I protested at this arbitrary attempt to exclude me, Schwartz added that the press registration was overbooked and there was no room.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI then asked if I could attend as a member of the public, since the event was advertised on the CSIS web site as a public event. Schwartz said I could not because I had already sought to attend as a reporter. Sensing the irrationality of this argument, he added that the public registration was already complete. In the course of this exchange, he changed his previous story, admitting that I had registered at 8:50 that morning, but claimed that by that time the press registration was already full.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhen I told him none of this was true, he threatened to have me ejected from the building.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSchwartz’s grounds for excluding the World Socialist Web Site were absurd. It was a public event, being addressed by elected officials of both parties. Why was I barred?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI was barred because, having realized who I was, the CSIS officials were concerned that I might raise a question that did not proceed from the entirely pro-establishment premises of the Washington press corps. They feared a question being posed, especially in the presence of the CSPAN cameras, that in any way exposed the real content of the policies being developed. No intrusion into their reactionary deliberations by media representatives outside of their own circle could be permitted.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’aventure m\u00e9rite quelques remarques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t• Il est vrai qu’il est assez \u00e9tonnant, voire absurde comme le note Grey, de voir de tels efforts, notablement maladroits et grossiers, d\u00e9ploy\u00e9s pour interdire \u00e0 un journaliste l’acc\u00e8s d’un \u00e9v\u00e9nement par ailleurs public, voire m\u00eame t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9. Ce n’est donc pas une question de restriction de l’information mais sans doute, comme le suppose assez justement Grey, la crainte de l’une ou l’autre remarque, ou question sortant de la ligne du Parti. C’est faire le constat que l’atmosph\u00e8re est, aujourd’hui, dans les c\u00e9nacles occidentaux, beaucoup plus contrainte et conditionn\u00e9e par l’auto-censure qu’elle ne l’\u00e9tait du temps de la Guerre froide. (D\u00e8s lors qu’il s’agissait d’un \u00e9v\u00e9nement public, il n’\u00e9tait pas question d’en entraver l’acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des repr\u00e9sentants de presse hors-syst\u00e8me, y compris de pays communistes. Au contraire, leur acc\u00e8s \u00e9tait facilit\u00e9 et on ne craignait certainement pas leurs interventions.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t• Le CSIS est r\u00e9put\u00e9 pour \u00eatre un think tank<\/em> mod\u00e9r\u00e9. Le fait que de telles m\u00e9thodes soient utilis\u00e9es, au risque de compromettre une r\u00e9putation, accentue l’impression d’une radicalisation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la vie publique de l’establishment<\/em> \u00e0 Washington. A noter que le nomm\u00e9 Schwartz vient de FoxNews<\/em> et de l’AIPAC, le lobby<\/em> sioniste \u00e0 Washington. Tout cela est sous contr\u00f4le et verrouill\u00e9 dans la bulle virtualiste ad hoc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t• Une heureuse nouvelle est que les journalistes du Web<\/em> semblent d\u00e9sormais suffisamment pris au s\u00e9rieux pour qu’on s’emploie \u00e0 leur interdire l’acc\u00e8s d’un \u00e9v\u00e9nement public. C’est effectivement une reconnaissance du bon travail que fait WSWS.org<\/em>, nonobstant le couplet trotskiste traditionnel qui termine en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral les articles du site. Tout cela tend \u00e0 confirmer que le Web<\/em> est un acteur \u00e0 part enti\u00e8re du monde de l’information, et notablement plus craint que la presse MSM (on n’a pas interdit l’acc\u00e8s du s\u00e9minaire \u00e0 un journaliste du Post<\/em> ou du Times<\/em>). C’est tout \u00e0 son honneur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 9 janvier 2007 \u00e0 15H53<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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