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Okay, it\u2019s the French press<\/a>, but we can see everyday that the same mindset exists in the US Press, as well:<\/p>\n

Mr Dassier said his own channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, recently decided not to show footage of burning cars.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPolitics in France is heading to the right and I don\u2019t want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television,\u201d Mr Dassier told an audience of broadcasters at the News Xchange conference in Amsterdam today.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate \u2026 Journalism is not simply a matter of switching on the cameras and letting them roll. You have to think about what you\u2019re broadcasting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Dassier denied he was guilty of \u201ccomplicity\u201d with the French authorities, which this week invoked an extraordinary state-of-emergency law passed during the country\u2019s war with Algeria 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

But he admitted his decision was partly motivated by a desire to avoid encouraging the resurgence of extreme rightwing views in France.<\/p>\n

French broadcasters have faced criticism for their lack of coverage of the country\u2019s worst civil unrest in decades. Public television station France 3 has stopped broadcasting the numbers of torched cars while other TV stations are considering following suit.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we send teams of journalists because cars are burning, or are the cars burning because we sent teams of journalists?\u201d asked Patrick Lecocq, editor-in-chief of France 2.<\/p>\n

Rival news organisations today questioned the French broadcasters\u2019 decision to temper coverage of the riots.<\/p>\n

John Ryley, the executive editor of Sky News, said his channel would have handled a similar story in Britain very differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have been all over it like a cheap suit. We would have monstered the story, and I didn\u2019t get the impression that happened in France,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll grant you, it\u2019s a very good and worthwhile thing to ask if the cars are burning because the cameras are there\u2026that never seems to be an issue, however, when the ideological shoe is on the other foot, however. I never see these guys ask if the anti-war, or anti-capitalism, or anti-Bush demonstrations are happening because the cameras are there.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"