{"id":72585,"date":"2010-12-16T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/16\/la-lecon-dignominie-par-le-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T18:40:07","slug":"la-lecon-dignominie-par-le-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/16\/la-lecon-dignominie-par-le-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"La le\u00e7on d’ignominie, \u2013 par le New York Times<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

La le\u00e7on d’ignominie, par le New York Times<\/em><\/h4>\n

Il faut reconna\u00eetre au site WSWS.org<\/em>, toujours tr\u00e8s militant et ferme sur les principes (trotskistes), une remarquable capacit\u00e9 de lecture du New York Times<\/em>, et une esp\u00e8ce de don pour d\u00e9busquer tout ce qu’il peut y avoir d’inf\u00e2me dans ce pseudo prestigieux journal de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence devenu une Pravda<\/em> de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence en direct avec le pouvoir du Syst\u00e8me. Preuve en est une fois de plus donn\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tJoseph Kishore, de WSWS.org<\/em>, revient, ce 16 d\u00e9cembre 2010<\/a>, sur un commentaire du 29 novembre 2010 de l’Executive Editor<\/em> de la feuille, Bill Keller, en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 des lettres de lecteurs syndiqu\u00e9s qui s’\u00e9tonnent de voir la Pravda<\/em> reprendre les infamies de Wikileaks<\/em>. Auparavant, Kishore note tr\u00e8s justement que le NYT n’a pas publi\u00e9 un seul \u00e9dito sur Wikileaks<\/em> repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e comme une organisation terroriste et les appels de personnalit\u00e9s US \u00e0 la liquidation d’Assange depuis la fin novembre \u00abThis is tantamount to tacit support for this campaign.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tQuelques extraits des commentaires de Kishore sur les commentaires de Keller.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab Keller began by declaring that he was uncomfortable with the notion that the editors of the Times can decide to release information that the government wants to keep secret. The editor’s discomfort at performing what has traditionally been considered one of the most essential roles of the media says a great deal about the real function of organs such as the New York Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWe have as much at stake in the war against terror as anyone, Keller continued. So the thought that something we report might increase the dangers faced by the country is daunting and humbling When we find ourselves in possession of government secrets, we think long and hard about whether to disclose them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbHere Keller accepts entirely the legitimacy of the war on terror, which, as he is well aware, has been used as a catch-all pretext for a series of criminal wars. The Times itself played a critical role in legitimizing the lies used to launch the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. By declaring that the newspaper has as much a stake in the war on terror as anyone, Keller is, in fact, proclaiming the Times’ unconditional support for the interests of American imperialism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn considering whether to disclose information, Keller wrote, the Times engages in extensive and serious discussions with the government. Here he evinces no conception of the press as an institution independent of the state. That the Times should discuss its publishing decisions regularly with the US government is for him perfectly natural.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn a passage that could have come straight from Orwell, Keller wrote, We agree wholeheartedly that transparency is not an absolute good. Freedom of the press includes freedom not to publish, and that is a freedom we exercise with some regularity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbFor Keller, the question of the freedom of the press is not a matter of the right of the public to know state secrets through the investigative inquiries of the press, but the right of the state, through its connections in the media, to keep information with some regularity from the American people. It is already known that the Times decided to sit on stories involving illegal domestic spying and torture carried out by the United States. How many other crimes is the newspaper helping to cover up?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIn relation to the recently released documents, Keller continued, We have withheld from publication a good deal of information in these cables that, on our own and in consultation with government officials, we believed could put lives at risk or could harm the national interest. These conditions for withholding information from the American peoplecould put lives at risk or could harm the national interestare so broad as to cover virtually anything.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbNot only did the Times censor itself, it worked essentially as an arm of the US government in trying to get other news organizations with access to the documents to follow its lead<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl n’emp\u00eache, ces derni\u00e8res pr\u00e9cisions (ci-dessous) de Keller, que rapporte et commente Kishore, mesurent combien les fuites de Wikileaks<\/em> constituent une source d’embarras pour le Syst\u00e8me et ses divers s\u00e9ides. Un certain malaise de Keller montre que le NYT est bien oblig\u00e9 de suivre parce que d’autres m\u00e9dias publient eux-m\u00eames ce mat\u00e9riel, et qu’il se trouverait trop clairement pris en flagrant d\u00e9lit, non seulement de d\u00e9sinformation et de m\u00e9sinformation, mais \u00e9galement de sous-information par incomp\u00e9tence et servilit\u00e9. Cela confirme le brio de la tactique choisie par Wikileaks<\/em> d’impliquer plusieurs grands quotidiens internationaux en m\u00eame temps dans les premi\u00e8res diffusions de ses fuites.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abFor the Times, the release of the documents by WikiLeaks is a misfortune. Keller would prefer that this informationand previous leaks documenting the criminal character of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistanwere kept secret. Given that the information was coming out anyway, however, the role of the Times was to vet it and function as a gatekeeper and guardian of state secrets.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe Times had the option, Keller wrote, to ignore the secret documents, knowing they would be widely read anyway, picked over, possibly published without removal of dangerous information, probably used to advance various agendas [i.e., agendas opposed to the policy of the US government]; or, to study them, put them in context, and publish articles based on them, along with a carefully redacted selection of actual documents. We chose the latter course.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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