Uploaded by NestaPaname on Oct 6, 2011 wrote:Arms industries take over the pressMonopolized and concentrated in few hands, the mainstream press is not independent ... Without exception, most of the media are now in the hands of arms manufacturers: Dassault and Lagardère. These are disturbing groups formed around a central firm whose activity is military (fighter planes, helicopters, missiles, rockets, satellites ...) and which together have the monopoly of the French press (see l French Media Observatory
...> ). No wonder the defense budget spends so well even in times of crisis. All social and pacifist struggles are denigrated, censored or considered marginal and the horrors of war are hidden.
Whether through the press, radio, cinema or television, the mainstream media are terribly lacking in independence and we should no longer trust them. It was two presenters of the 20 p.m. TV news who said this: Patrick Poivre d'Arvor had confessed a long time ago that he was forced into self-censorship, and Françoise Laborde, who has just released her book denouncing politics cronyism, "it gets better saying it", said publicly on France 2 that "everyone is lying" on television news. Suddenly she is ousted from the 20 o'clock news.
Today, the media flirt with Power, they are working to drown the fish by totally diverting attention from the real Clearstream affair. They manipulate you with pre-election polls to designate you for whom to vote. But not a word about the war in Chechnya or the war in Darfur (South Sudan). In Afghanistan our journalists from France 3 have still not returned, taken hostage, it seems, by the insurgents. Are our armies unable to bring them back? Perhaps they have too compromising things to tell?
There is already a censorship on the number of civilian victims, so we can assume everything ...
Is this the end of ideologies? this to discredit any citizen reflection and reaction. Faced with an alarming drop in its circulation in France, the disarray of the press can only get worse, given the increase in the number of people connected to broadband (Internet).
The bosses who own the main media, say that we shouldn't question the independence of journalists ... However, this small number of industrialists - Bouygues, Dassault, Lagardère, Pinault, Arnault, Bolloré, Bertelsmann - - multiply alliances between them and threaten pluralism. It is interesting to look closely at the links that Nicolas Sarkozy maintains with the big French bosses:
http://vandepj0.free.fr/spip.php?article28As we saw recently with the takeover of 37% of the capital of "
Release" by banker Edouard de Rothschild, journalists are dismissed. The few remaining journalists are very worried, they lack the means and the job is too dangerous. Besides, there are no longer any investigations into sensitive cases or reports in countries at war.
