{"id":72839,"date":"2011-03-14T09:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T09:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/14\/le-triomphe-daljazeera\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T09:43:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T09:43:39","slug":"le-triomphe-daljazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/14\/le-triomphe-daljazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Le triomphe d&rsquo;<em>Aljazeera<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Dans une chronique qu&rsquo;il d\u00e9veloppe \u00e0 propos d&rsquo;un s\u00e9jour \u00e0 Doha, pour le 6\u00e8me Forum Annuel de <em>Aljazeera<\/em>, Steve Clemons nous fait part sans la moindre restriction de toute l&rsquo;admiration, voire la fascination qu&rsquo;il \u00e9prouve pour cette cha\u00eene d&rsquo;information arabe. (Voir le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/2011\/03\/tears_for_a_jou\/\" class=\"gen\">12 mars 2011<\/a>, sur son site <em>The Washington Note<\/em>.) Clemons \u00e9crit son texte pour souligner, sur la fin, un moment d&rsquo;une intense \u00e9motion lorsqu&rsquo;on apprend la mort en Libye d&rsquo;un membre de l&rsquo;\u00e9quipe d&rsquo;<em>Aljazeera<\/em>, Ali Hassaon Al Jaber, abattu au cours d&rsquo;un affrontement,  \u00e9motion qu&rsquo;il distingue si puissante chez Wadah Khanfar, le directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l&rsquo;information t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9e sur <MI>Aljazerra, qui pr\u00e9sidait le Forum. (\u00ab<em>Once most of the people in the private meeting left the room, I saw Khanfar turn to a corner of the room and start sobbing, tears running down his cheeks. I touched his shoulder and told him how sorry I was for the member of his team who had been lost. What I didn&rsquo;t say was murdered.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tVoici quelques-unes des remarques de Clemons sur la r\u00e9union, sur <em>Aljazeera<\/em>, sur le prestige et la notori\u00e9t\u00e9 admirative dont jouit d\u00e9sormais la cha\u00eene arabe aux USA. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>There are more than sixty of leading young activists from revolts and revolutions throughout the Middle East at the 6th Annual Al Jazeera Forum. I am attending this fascinating meeting as a guest of Al Jazeera.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Turkey Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu just landed in Doha to speak at the meeting tomorrow. Former Brazil President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva will also be speaking. Key members of the Libyan opposition are here  including the man designated by the Opposition&rsquo;s Central Committee to serve as head of the foreign affairs portfolio. There are incumbent government representatives from governments throughout the Middle East  and their challengers who have been provoking them on the streets and through pixels and streaming and SMS.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>There are bloggers, vloggers, social network organizers, faces and voices of an older Middle East, and then personalities who have politically emerged and not known to the world until several weeks ago. This is a powerful forum, wrestling with what is happening and what needs to be done. Debate and discourse here among stakeholders is passionate yet civil.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>There are some Europeans, Americans, South Africans, French, Brits, and Irish here. But for the first time in a long time, this forum feels like the kind of meeting where we are trying to catch up with the Arabs and Muslims here  trying to understand what they are doing to change their world. That is how it should be.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>If I ever hear a disparaging remark against the quality of Al Jazeera journalism or the tilts in their coverage, I will say shame on that person or that Fox News commentator. Shame because Al Jazeera has been fighting hard to keep its cameras in the field and to keep its people from being hunted down by ruthless leaders that see the free press as an enemy to their power<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tHonte&rsquo; \u00e0 cette personne ou \u00e0 ce commentateur de Fox.News, dit Clemons, notamment parce que Fox.News a fait le plus mauvais accueil, un accueil outr\u00e9 et furieux, aux remarques d\u00e9sormais fameuses de Hillary Clinton sur <em>Aljazeera<\/em>. (Cela se passait lors d&rsquo;une audition de Clinton au S\u00e9nat, le 2 mars.) <em>Huffington.post<\/em>, notamment, avait fait rapport de cette intervention d&rsquo;Hillary Clinton le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/03\/05\/hillary-clintons-al-jazeera-us-media_n_831788.html\" class=\"gen\">5 mars 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Clinton, on the week many U.S. television outlets were preoccupied by the spectacle of actor Charlie Sheen, suggested during testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that American networks were falling behind in the competition for information. Al-Jazeera has been a leader in changing people&rsquo;s minds and attitudes, Clinton told lawmakers Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Like it or hate it, it is really effective, Clinton said. In fact, viewership of Al-Jazeera is going up in the United States because it is real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you&rsquo;re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news that is not providing information to us, let alone foreigners.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The events in Egypt have convinced an increasing number of Americans, the secretary of state included, that the coverage Al-Jazeera has provided for these events is something that is seen as a dramatic shift in perception of the network, said Abderrahim Foukara, Al-Jazeera&rsquo;s Washington bureau chief.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Fox News Channel&rsquo;s Michael Clemente said he was surprised and kind of curious by Clinton&rsquo;s remarks. We&rsquo;ve got leadership issues there, the safety of people, the safety of our own people, said Clemente, senior vice president for news. Some big issues. All of a sudden there are headlines about Al-Jazeera versus the news in this country? It&rsquo;s just surprising. Curious more than surprising.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tPour rappel pas si lointain, il y a six ans on parlait plut\u00f4t d&rsquo;un projet d&rsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-to_bomb_or_not_to_bomb_to_joke_or_not_to_joke_to_publish_or_not_to_publish_23_11_2005.html\" class=\"gen\">attaque US<\/a>, avec des belles et bonnes bombes am\u00e9ricanistes, contre <em>Aljazeera<\/em>, tant la cha\u00eene arabe \u00e9tait jug\u00e9e d\u00e9plac\u00e9e, propagatrice antiam\u00e9ricaniste, donc n\u00e9cessairement propagatrice de mensonges Il y a vingt ans notamment, et \u00e0 de nombreuses reprises dans les ann\u00e9es qui suivirent, il nous \u00e9tait confi\u00e9 que les dirigeants am\u00e9ricanistes suivaient CNN pour un compl\u00e9ment d&rsquo;information vital sur le d\u00e9roulement des \u00e9v\u00e9nements dans le monde,  notamment la premi\u00e8re guerre du Golfe en 1991, moment de gloire et de c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 de la premi\u00e8re cha\u00eene de TV tout info. Donc,  comme les temps changent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe t\u00e9moignage de Clinton au S\u00e9nat, et son pan\u00e9gyrique de <em>Aljazeera<\/em>, ont fait grand bruit dans les milieux du syst\u00e8me de la communication aux USA. Qu&rsquo;on le veuille ou non (<em>Like it or hate it&#8230;<\/em>), il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;une d\u00e9marche de reconnaissance assez loyale de la secr\u00e9taire d&rsquo;Etat sur ce point fondamental de la qualit\u00e9 professionnelle et intellectuelle de la cha\u00eene d&rsquo;information arabe, reconnaissance partag\u00e9e d\u00e9sormais par une partie du monde de l&rsquo;information et du commentaire politique US (voir Clemons). A cette lumi\u00e8re, l&rsquo;\u00e9tablissement d&rsquo;une cha\u00eene en anglais par <em>Aljazeera<\/em>, il y a trois ans, en plus de sa cha\u00eene principale en arabe, a constitu\u00e9 une op\u00e9ration d&rsquo;une ampleur et d&rsquo;une r\u00e9ussite \u00e9galement exceptionnelles. Aujourd&rsquo;hui, sur un \u00e9v\u00e9nement aussi fondamental que la cha\u00eene crisique au Moyen-Orient, la principale source d&rsquo;information de nombre d&rsquo;experts de l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em> US et, plus largement, de ce m\u00eame monde de l&rsquo;information et du commentaire US (au premier rang, bien entendu, les commentaires des dissidents antiSyst\u00e8me de l&rsquo;Internet), est bien <em>Aljazeera<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLes motifs d&rsquo;Hillary Clinton d&rsquo;intervenir dans ce sens sont divers. On ne peut \u00e9carter celui de lancer honn\u00eatement un jugement <em>a contrario<\/em> extr\u00eamement d\u00e9favorable sur l&rsquo;\u00e9volution de la presse US, mis en \u00e9vidence effectivement <em>a contrario<\/em> par la qualit\u00e9 d&rsquo;<em>Aljazeera<\/em>. Bien entendu, la volont\u00e9 d&rsquo;<em>Aljazeera<\/em> d&rsquo;une attitude critique des USA et de leur politique, et d&rsquo;ailleurs au meilleur des propos, rend compte de la fa\u00e7on la plus \u00e9vidente de ce que nous voyons d&rsquo;honn\u00eatet\u00e9, sinon de lucidit\u00e9, dans le jugement de Clinton. D&rsquo;autre part, il existe une puissante le\u00e7on dans ce jugement, qui concerne essentiellement l&rsquo;\u00e9volution et la situation des moyens d&rsquo;information et de communication US officiels, et de ce que nous nommons plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement, en englobant en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral nombre de pays europ\u00e9ens, et particuli\u00e8rement la France qui occupe une position d&rsquo;une path\u00e9tique m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard, la presse-<em>Pravda<\/em> ou la presse-Syst\u00e8me. Cette partie du syst\u00e8me de la communication am\u00e9ricaniste-occidentaliste s&rsquo;est situ\u00e9e ces 10-15 derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es \u00e0 un niveau rarement atteint, m\u00eame dans le cas des dictatures diverses, de m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 et de suj\u00e9tion vis-\u00e0-vis de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 officielle. Il en r\u00e9sulte que cette partie du syst\u00e8me distille l&rsquo;ennui, un conformisme de plomb, une sous-information si d\u00e9bilitante pour l&rsquo;esprit que m\u00eame le lecteur non-averti finit par s&rsquo;en aviser et, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, l&rsquo;\u00e9cho d&rsquo;une b\u00eatise sans fard qui rend \u00e9puisante la lecture de ses commentaires et de ses r\u00e9flexions. M\u00eame une secr\u00e9taire d&rsquo;Etat am\u00e9ricaniste finit par en \u00eatre lass\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tM\u00eame une secr\u00e9taire d&rsquo;Etat finit par juger cette soumission et cet abaissement volontaire contre-productifs m\u00eame pour le Syst\u00e8me qu&rsquo;elle sert (ou bien est-ce une partie d&rsquo;Hillary Clinton, \u00e9chappant \u00e0 cette soumission qu&rsquo;elle ne r\u00e9alise pas d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on consciente, qui manifeste cette r\u00e9volte). L&rsquo;\u00e9tat des choses est tel qu&rsquo;effectivement, on peut parler, comme le fait Clemons, d&rsquo;une fascination dans le cas de nombre de membres de cet <em>establishment<\/em> qui se saoulent des slogans sur la libert\u00e9 et les vertus de la presse am\u00e9ricaniste, lorsqu&rsquo;ils rencontrent effectivement l&rsquo;exercice de la libert\u00e9 d&rsquo;information et de commentaire, dans le chef d&rsquo;<em>Aljazeera<\/em>. On tient sans doute le fondement objectif, d&rsquo;un point de vue politique, de la d\u00e9marche d&rsquo;Hillary Clinton. La m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 et la servilit\u00e9 propagandiste de la presse-Syst\u00e8me aux USA sont devenus telles que les dommages caus\u00e9s \u00e0 la r\u00e9putation flatteuse de cette presse et des USA (et du Syst\u00e8me) d\u00e9passent d\u00e9sormais tr\u00e8s largement les avantages qu&rsquo;on peut esp\u00e9rer recueillir de ce journalisme-propagande. Du coup, il deviendrait presque politiquement habile de se rapprocher du mod\u00e8le-<em>Aljazeera<\/em>, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire du mod\u00e8le arabe de libert\u00e9 de la presse,  un comble pour les USA. Cela \u00e9crit, nous irions m\u00eame jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 douter que les journalistes-Syst\u00e8me, aux USA, puissent y parvenir, totalement assujetis qu&rsquo;ils sont au Syst\u00e8me et \u00e0 leur propre psychologie am\u00e9ricaniste. Il n&rsquo;est pas simple de changer la programmation de robots humains.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 14 mars 2011 \u00e0 09H44<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans une chronique qu&rsquo;il d\u00e9veloppe \u00e0 propos d&rsquo;un s\u00e9jour \u00e0 Doha, pour le 6\u00e8me Forum Annuel de Aljazeera, Steve Clemons nous fait part sans la moindre restriction de toute l&rsquo;admiration, voire la fascination qu&rsquo;il \u00e9prouve pour cette cha\u00eene d&rsquo;information arabe. (Voir le 12 mars 2011, sur son site The Washington Note.) 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