{"id":74447,"date":"2012-01-25T06:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T06:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/25\/presstv-et-sa-lecon-de-liberte\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T06:43:20","slug":"presstv-et-sa-lecon-de-liberte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/25\/presstv-et-sa-lecon-de-liberte\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV<\/em> et sa le\u00e7on de libert\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

On sait que l’action de communication au niveau des t\u00e9l\u00e9visions et de l’Internet est un des principaux champs de bataille avec le Syst\u00e8me, le principal, selon nous. R\u00e9cemment, sont intervenus divers \u00e9v\u00e8nements dans cette bataille, et il ne manquera pas de s’en produire de plus en plus souvent. L’action contre la station de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision iranienne PressTV<\/em> (voir le 21 janvier 2012<\/a>) par le gouvernement britannique d’une fa\u00e7on cynique et d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e qui refl\u00e8te \u00e0 la fois son arrogance et sa situation d’urgence, voil\u00e0 qui constitue \u00e0 la fois 0un bon exemple et un \u00e9pisode marquant de cette bataille.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl nous int\u00e9resse \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard de mettre l’accent sur un t\u00e9moignage concernant PressTV<\/em> (et le site PressTV.com<\/em> pour nous), celui de Danny Schechter, dont il nous est arriv\u00e9<\/a> de pr\u00e9senter des commentaires. Cette fois, il s’agit du t\u00e9moignage de Schechter sur PressTV<\/em>, station \u00e0 laquelle il a collabopr\u00e9. Il faut savoir que Schechter est un dissident US de gauche, donc extr\u00eamement pointilleux sur les aspects de la d\u00e9mocratie, de la libert\u00e9 de l’expression, etc. Ce n’est pas un ami du gouvernement iranien ; mais ce n’est pas un ami non plus, peut-\u00eatre encore moins semble-t-il, du r\u00e9gime am\u00e9ricaniste tel qu’il existe aujourd’hui. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSchechter estime sans le moindre doute que l’action britannique contre la station iranienne est un acte de censure d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9 et absolument d\u00e9testable et condamnable. Voil\u00e0 pour les principes. Pour le reste, puisqu’il fut et reste un collaborateur ext\u00e9rieur occasionnel de PressTV<\/em>, Schechter nous donne ce t\u00e9moignage sur ses relations avec la station, la fa\u00e7on dont la station fait son travail, traite ses collaborateurs, surtout ext\u00e9rieurs, etc. Aucun doute n’est permis \u00e0 cette lecture : c’est nous, dans le bloc BAO si imbu de ses vertus, qui avons des le\u00e7ons de d\u00e9mocratie et de libert\u00e9 d’expression \u00e0 recevoir des Iraniens. (Le texte de Schechter, dans ConsortiumNews<\/em>, le 23 janvier 2012<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abI have to disclose being among many Americans who have been interviewed frequently by Press TV out of New York. No one there ever told me what to say, or not say, and I have often been quite openly critical of Iranian government practices, live comments that the channel carried, and, afterwards, had me back.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbI have almost always posted those interviews on my News Dissector.com blog. I also produced a program for their InFocus program on Occupy Wall Street that I was proud of. It drew many compliments from occupiers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbOne shot from that program was pulled the cover of the Occupy Wall Street Journal carrying a photograph of a male and female occupier kissing but that was not a big deal in the scheme of things, given that many networks, including American ones, have vigilant lawyer-run standard and practices departments to police their airways for violations of social mores.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAsk Janet Jackson about that!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbAs a general rule, in my experience I found Press TV offers more diverse views and often more professional coverage than the three U.S. networks that I have worked for. They have carried criticisms of U.S. polices that only appear on comedy shows on American TV. The West should not lecture Iran on media honesty.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbI have written many books and blogs, and made films about my experience in American TV at major networks, including The More You Watch, The Less You Know and WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception about U.S. media manipulation and network complicity in miscovering the Iraq War.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb certainly do not support Iranian government repression of human rights, while at the same time I cannot support my own government when it acts in a similar way. Where are the criticisms of the arrests of more than 5,000 non-violent Occupy protesters in the U.S. since September? Also, Guantanamo anyone?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbI also cannot support the West’s harsh sanctions on Iran that punish the Iranian people, more than their government, and I do not believe we should suppress Iranian perspectives in our media. (My criticism is not uniformly true, as a great Iranian film, Separation, just won a Golden Globe award even as its director challenges his government’s film policies.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbWe need more mutual understanding and interaction between Americans and Iranians. That can’t happen easily when outlets like Press TV are being taken off the air<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa conclusion de Schechter est \u00e9vidente, et elle vaut pour nous tous. L’attaque contre PressTV<\/em> n’est pas une attaque partisane essentiellement (contre l’Iran), c’est une attaque partisane qui se place au sein d’une attaque g\u00e9n\u00e9rale contre toutes les libert\u00e9s d’expression. Cela vaut pour tous les domaines de la communication. Le Syst\u00e8me est aux abois, il devient de plus en plus brutal, cynique, arbitraire. \u00abIf Western governments get away with suppressing Iranian media today, ours will be next<\/em>\u00bb, conclut Schechter. C’est l’\u00e9vidence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 25 janvier 2012 \u00e0 06H43<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On sait que l’action de communication au niveau des t\u00e9l\u00e9visions et de l’Internet est un des principaux champs de bataille avec le Syst\u00e8me, le principal, selon nous. R\u00e9cemment, sont intervenus divers \u00e9v\u00e8nements dans cette bataille, et il ne manquera pas de s’en produire de plus en plus souvent. L’action contre la station de t\u00e9l\u00e9vision iranienne… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14586,2826,14054,2773,3287,11681,11663],"class_list":["post-74447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-afcom","tag-censure","tag-dexpression","tag-iran","tag-liberte","tag-presstv","tag-schechter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}