\t7 juillet 2011 (ou 8 juillet 2009 ?) Effectivement, il y a deux ans, le 8 juillet 2009<\/a>, le Guardian<\/em> publiait son premier article de r\u00e9v\u00e9lation sur l’extraordinaire r\u00e9seau d’actions ill\u00e9gales de journalistes des journaux du groupe Murdoch (News Group et News International) en Grande-Bretagne, notamment du journal, dit tablo\u00efd du dimanche, le News of The World<\/em> (NoTW). Ces actions concernent des \u00e9coutes (une image) de portables priv\u00e9s, portant notamment sur la lecture des messages re\u00e7us par le portable.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAlan Rusbridger, r\u00e9dacteur en chef du Guardian<\/em>, se rem\u00e9more (ce 7 juillet 2011<\/a>) avec un certain d\u00e9lice ce premier article de Nick Davies, le silence des autres et les ch\u00e8ques de Murdoch qui suivirent<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abNick’s first story on the full extent of the phone-hacking scandal was published almost exactly two years ago on 8 July 2009. It was or should have been explosive. It reported that a major global media company News International had paid out \u00a31m secretly to settle legal cases which revealed criminality within their business.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbInstead of going back to parliament or the regulator to admit that they had been misled, the company’s chairman, James Murdoch, signed a large cheque to stop the truth coming out.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWith any non-media company this revelation would have led to blanket coverage, calls for resignations, immediate action by the regulator etc. Instead there was a kind of ghostly silence.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tQue s’est-il pass\u00e9 ? Les articles ont succ\u00e9d\u00e9 aux articles, sans r\u00e9sultats tangibles, des enqu\u00eates aux enqu\u00eates, sans mesures spectaculaires, d’autres ch\u00e8ques ajout\u00e9s \u00e0 d’autres ch\u00e8ques, avec des r\u00e9sultats sonnants et tr\u00e9buchants Peu \u00e0 peu, pourtant, le mur de silence et d’inattention s’est fendill\u00e9, fissur\u00e9, etc. Puis, soudain, tout s’effondre ; ces derniers jours, soudain, l’ouragan s’est d\u00e9cha\u00een\u00e9 … \u00abScroll forward two years and the full truth of what was going on at the News of the World is dramatically being stripped bare. Some kind of mental dam has been broken. MPs, journalists, regulators and police are speaking confidently again as they should. The palpably intimidating spectre of an apparently untouchable media player has been burst.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tPourquoi, exactement, cela est-il devenu une affaire \u00e9norme, qui, soudain, menace un des dictateurs du syst\u00e8me m\u00e9diatique, et donc du syst\u00e8me de la communication de notre contre-civilisation, de la substance de notre contre-civilisation, Rupert Murdoch lui-m\u00eame ? Les derni\u00e8res r\u00e9v\u00e9lations donnent une explication conjoncturelle, avec la mise en \u00e9vidence de l’implication comme victimes des manoeuvres et des falsifications des journalistes d’une petite fille assassin\u00e9e, de victimes de l’attaque terroriste de juillet 2005, de proches de soldats tu\u00e9s au combat ; leurs messages ont \u00e9t\u00e9 espionn\u00e9s, pill\u00e9s, voire falsifi\u00e9s pour obtenir des effets sensationnels, par les journalistes de Murdoch L’\u00e9motion les \u00e9touffe aussit\u00f4t, comme le rapporte CNN.News<\/em>, dans un r\u00e9sum\u00e9 de toute l’affaire, le 6 juin 2011<\/a> (Reuters donne \u00e9galement, le 6 juillet 2011<\/a>, une excellente synth\u00e8se de l’affaire, remontant jusqu’\u00e0 2000.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe story was only propelled onto the front pages in July when police revealed that News of the World possibly hacked into the voicemail of a murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, and victims of the London bombings. The allegation stunned media watchers. Outside of the political elite in Britain, this story has had little traction until now, said Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and an assistant editor of the Sun, a sister paper of News of The World. The allegations about the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone have the potential to change that. This is a step change: before we had hacking of celebrities and politicians, but here we have the interference of a murder inquiry involving a 13-year-old girl.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tHier 6 juillet, ce fut un d\u00e9cha\u00eenement aux Communes. Ce 7 juillet 2011<\/a>, Steve Richards, de The Independent<\/em>, \u00e9crit : \u00abYesterday’s exchanges in the Commons were ones I thought I would never witness. They are of historic importance. Senior elected politicians dared to challenge the powerful Murdoch empire and there was an air of catharsis as they did so.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe m\u00eame Richards poursuit cet article en mettant en \u00e9vidence ce qui pourrait \u00eatre un fait fondamental de cet \u00e9norme scandale impr\u00e9vu. Comme BAE<\/a> au niveau des armements et des forces industrielles diverses (syst\u00e8me du technologisme) et \u00e9videmment corruptrices, on doit observer que le groupe Murdoch , apr\u00e8s \u00e9limination de divers candidats de son domaine, celui de l’influence la plus grossi\u00e8re du public dans son sens le plus large et le plus bas qu’on puisse imaginer (syst\u00e8me de la communication), exerce, ou exer\u00e7ait, une fantastique influence, \u00e9galement corruptrice, sur le monde politique londonien, ce qui laisse \u00e0 penser combien ce monde-l\u00e0, aussi<\/strong>, atteint \u00e0 des niveaux de bassesse consid\u00e9rables. Par cons\u00e9quent, oui, cette mise en cause formidable du pouvoir de Murdoch suspend soudain au-dessus des t\u00eates de l’un des groupes politiques dirigeants favoris du Syst\u00e8me, une \u00e9p\u00e9e de Damocl\u00e8s qui se nomme, d\u00e9sordre, dispersion des influences, fracture des groupes et des politiques conformes au Syst\u00e8me, bref, d\u00e9sordre, d\u00e9sordre, d\u00e9sordre Lorsqu’on d\u00e9couvre ce que chacun sait tout bas mais n’osait dire tout haut, que la direction politique britannique est (\u00e9tait) absolument manipul\u00e9e par le magicien Murdoch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAinsi Richards parle-t-il de la chute de la maison Murdoch, au niveau de l’essence m\u00eame de son existence, qui est l’influence, en des termes qui pourraient convenir pour faire un commentaire exalt\u00e9 sur le printemps arabe<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe tyrants lose their swagger and those that lived in fear dare to speak out. The dynamics of the News International saga are similar to the ones that shape the fall of dictatorial regimes, except in this case it is some mighty media executives who are suddenly fearful and the politicians who are liberated<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbUntil the revelations of recent days, Messrs Cameron and Miliband were wary of speaking out. Currently Cameron has the support of every single newspaper in the News International stable. Miliband ached for more sympathetic coverage and feared an onslaught on the scale that helped to destroy Neil Kinnock. Now they are almost free to condemn the ethics of those they feared. For the first time during Prime Minister’s Questions, Miliband could display authentic anger without fear of retribution from News International.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOne of his private objectives when he became leader was at some point to challenge the debased media culture in Britain. Suddenly his objective becomes public and he will not be torn apart by The Sun this morning or the News of the World on Sunday. It is impossible to overestimate the degree to which, until this week, Murdoch’s newspapers were stifling the voice of another scared party leader.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn supporting a full public inquiry, Cameron also went much further than he has done, even if he could not quite sever all ties with a company that has delivered overwhelming support and some friends. For a prime minister to signal distance when he is receiving supportive coverage is as significant as Miliband’s more strident onslaught.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe novelty of this transformed choreography takes the breath away. Senior figures in both the bigger parties are used to paying homage. As a BBC political correspondent, I was the only journalist who travelled with Tony Blair in July 1995 for his famous meeting with Rupert Murdoch at a conference in Australia. The investment of political and physical energy was staggering. Murdoch issued an invitation at relatively short notice to Blair, a summons that could not be ignored. Blair, Alastair Campbell and Anji Hunter dropped all plans, flew for 24 hours, taking sleeping pills to manage the jet lag, attended the conference and returned in time for Prime Minister’s Questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThere was no formal deal between the future prime minister and the mighty media emperor during that fleeting round-the-world trip, but I was certain by the end of it that at the very least The Sun would be neutral and Murdoch could relax about future media ownership laws. Subsequently Campbell’s deputy in No 10, Lance Price, described Murdoch as the third most powerful figure in the Labour government after Blair and Gordon Brown. Murdoch’s editors were the equivalent of powerful apparatchiks in a dictatorship.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tC’est-\u00e0-dire que Murdoch a domin\u00e9 les \u00e9lites politiques britanniques, pour, notamment, encourager leurs orientations vers la politique qu’on qualifierait d’interventionniste humanitariste, ou bien de n\u00e9o-colonialiste, etc. De m\u00eame, \u00e0 Washington, o\u00f9 Murdoch r\u00e8gne en ma\u00eetre, ou r\u00e9gnait, puisque, l\u00e0 aussi, ses groupes qui assuraient le r\u00f4le de courroies de transmission de son influence ne cessent de perdre du terrain : si les n\u00e9oconservateurs ont pu vivre et r\u00e9pandre leur influence depuis le d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1990, notamment avec l’hebdomadaire The Weekly Standard<\/em> et l’ \tD’une certaine fa\u00e7on, son succ\u00e8s capitaliste, sa puissance d’influence construite sur l’argent de ses profits capitalistes, semblaient conf\u00e9rer \u00e0 Murdoch une sorte de l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9<\/strong> qui serait celle de la d\u00e9mocratie r\u00e9nov\u00e9e, retap\u00e9e, r\u00e9adapt\u00e9e aux normes clinquantes de l’\u00e9poque, une l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 presque souveraine<\/strong>, m\u00eame si c’est \u00e0 la sauce postmoderniste. Nous h\u00e9sitons \u00e0 peine sur l’emploi de ces mots qui semble d’habitude si \u00e9tranger \u00e0 une telle bassesse, \u00e0 l’interf\u00e9rence clownesque \u00e0 force d’impudence de l’argent, nous h\u00e9sitons \u00e0 peine parce que, depuis les ann\u00e9es 1989 et \u00e0 toute vapeur apr\u00e8s la chute de l’URSS et du communisme, s’est b\u00e2tie une sorte de l\u00e9gende \u00e0 l’effluve assez forte pour subvertir absolument ce qu’il nous restait de psychologie non encore gagn\u00e9e par la d\u00e9sint\u00e9gration d\u00e9structurante de la course de notre contre-civilisation vers son ab\u00eeme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n