The Cho in the White House.<\/em>\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tTom Engelhardt introduit le texte de John Brown par son propre commentaire. (Il cite notamment James Carroll, dont nous parlons par ailleurs.) En voici un extrait :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abWe are only now emerging from more than a week in the nearly 24\/7 bubble world the American media creates for all-American versions of such moments of horror, elevating them to heights of visibility that no one on Earth can avoid contemplating. Really, we have no sense of how strange these media moments of collective, penny-ante therapy are, moments when, as Todd Gitlin wrote recently, killers turn into broadcasters. Like Cho Seung-Hui, they go into the communication business, making the media effectively (and usually willingly enough) accessories after the fact in what are little short of pornographic displays of American victimization.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbFinally, articles are beginning to appear that place the horrific, strangely meaningless, bizarrely mesmerizing slaughter\/suicide at Blacksburg the killing field of a terrorist without even a terror program in some larger context. Washington Post on-line columnist Dan Froomkin caught something of our moment in his mordant observation that, at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner the other evening, with the massed media and the President (as well as Karl Rove) well gathered, the tragic Virginia Tech massacre required solemn observation and expressions of great respect, while the seemingly endless war that often claims as many victims in a day deserved virtually no mention at all. Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks took a hard-eyed look at the urge of all Americans to become victims and of a President who won’t attend the funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq to make hay off the moment. (It’s a good strategy. People busy holding candlelight vigils for the deaths in Blacksburg don’t have much time left over to protest the war in Iraq.); and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll offered his normal incisive comments, this time on expressive and instrumental violence in Iraq and the U.S. in his latest column. He concluded: Iraqi violence of various stripes still aims for power, control, or, at minimum, revenge. Iraqi violence is purposeful. Last week puts its hard question to Americans: What is the purpose of ours?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 27 avril 2007 \u00e0 00H08<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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