Okay, good day’s work. But there was more: the phone rang and on the end of the line was Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s press flak. The main man, Prime Minister Putin, wanted to give us an exclusive. A full-length, sitdown interview.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl explique le cas de l’interview Poutine, avec certains d\u00e9tails et r\u00e9ticences (l’allusion au KGB, un petit peu de sang sur les mains) qui font partie du politically correct<\/em> si puissant du c\u00f4t\u00e9 occidental. Mais, s’exprimant en tant que journaliste \u00e9galement, il ne cache pas qu’une rencontre avec Poutine est, techniquement et professionnellement, une grande source de satisfaction. Le go\u00fbt de l’information et du scoop<\/em> est \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard un puissant moteur pour les journalistes occidentaux, pour r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 cette ouverture des Russes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI should emphasize at this point how big this is for us. Vladimir Putin has virtually single-handedly transformed Russia into a powerful, confident, maybe even aggressive, state. He is a former KGB spy, and the former Russian president who eased his protege and hand-picked successor into the Kremlin job. He denies it, but word is he, not Medvedev, still calls the shots in Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAnd what’s more, he rarely gives interviews. Very rarely. CNN hasn’t spoken to him for more than seven years. To get him now, at a time like this, when Russia is so prominent in the minds of Americans and the world, was incredible, fascinating.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAnd Putin doesn’t disappoint. The guy is short, stocky, a KGB-trained judo black belt with a cold stare, and his critics would say, more than a little blood on his hands. He made Russia’s ruthless crackdown on Chechen separatists into an almost personal vendetta.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tDans sa conclusion, Chance explique ce qui s’est pass\u00e9, comment a eu lieu ce changement d’attitude des dirigeants russes vis-\u00e0-vis des m\u00e9dias occidentaux<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abAnyway, point is, things have changed and here’s why, from a source who knows: Putin was in Beijing watching the opening ceremony when the war in Georgia erupted. He was constantly watching CNN to see how the conflict was being reported. And he didn’t like it. He hated it. He hated seeing Mikheil Saakashvili appealing for Western support, he hated that there was no one on TV putting across the Russian version of events.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhy was there no one? Because there is no access in Russia, we were not allowed to go to the Russian side of the conflict zone. No Russian officials were available to talk to us, as usual. Georgia played the media game, Russia did not.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbA decision was taken then to change tack, to engage with the Western media, to aggressively argue Russia’s side. The Kremlin, which constantly complains of a bad press, could have learned this lesson years ago. But hopefully they see the value of us now. Doesn’t mean we agree with them, or that appearing on CNN will convert the West to Russia’s line.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut at least they are in the debate now and that can’t be bad for Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCette offensive russe est-elle efficace? Sans aucun doute. Elle a pes\u00e9 d’un poids certain pour \u00e9viter de verrouiller d\u00e9finitivement la vision m\u00e9diatique occidentale, \u00e9tablie presque d\u00e8s le d\u00e9part, sur l’id\u00e9e de la seule responsabilit\u00e9 russe initiale. (Nous parlons ici de la repr\u00e9sentation m\u00e9diatique, \u00e9videmment biais\u00e9e dans divers sens comme chacun sait, et nullement de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9.) Depuis cette phase, intensive entre le 10 et 20 ao\u00fbt, o\u00f9 Saakachvili fut omnipr\u00e9sent dans les m\u00e9dias occidentaux, les Russes ont regagn\u00e9 du terrain. Aujourd’hui, leur th\u00e8se de la crise recommence \u00e0 \u00eatre pr\u00e9sente dans les m\u00e9dias, peut-\u00eatre presque autant que celle des G\u00e9orgiens. Les Russes ont sans doute compris que la guerre m\u00e9diatique, si importante politiquement, se livre moins dans le domaine politique en plaidant initialement leur cause politique, que dans le domaine professionnel, en suscitant l’int\u00e9r\u00eat professionnel des journalistes par des occasions multiples d’intervention pour leurs m\u00e9dias; ce n’est qu’\u00e0 ce moment, lorsque l’acc\u00e8s des m\u00e9dias leur est ouvert qu’ils peuvent plaider leur cause politique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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