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Brian Williams Makes the Case for Putting NBC on Trial
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/06/05/brian-williams-makes-the-case-for-putting-nbc-on-trial

But giving classified information to the public is something that news outlets – including NBC News – routinely do, and each time they do it they too could be accused of “aiding the enemy.” For example, NBC’s Michael Isikoff reported on February 4 that a “confidential memo” produced by the Justice Department held that “the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be ‘senior operational leaders’ of Al-Qaeda or ‘an associated force’ – even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S.” […] There’s no reason that the same legal theory that accuses Manning of “aiding the enemy” couldn’t be applied to NBC News for “supporting terrorism” by putting classified information on TV where Al-Qaeda could see it.

La guerre en Irak, 10 ans après - Acrimed | Action Critique Médias
http://www.acrimed.org/article4054.html

Depuis le 15 avril 2013 et quatre jours durant, les attentats de Boston et la traque de leurs auteurs ont focalisé l’attention médiatique et phagocyté le reste de l’actualité… Dans le même temps, des attentats ou des combats décimaient des civils en Syrie ou en Irak, qui étaient à peine évoqués dans la presse écrite et ignorés par les radios et les télés. Cette asymétrie dans le traitement des victimes de violence armée démontre l’invraisemblable ethnocentrisme qui régit la production de l’information et paraît tout particulièrement évidente en ce qui concerne l’Irak. Le silence médiatique qui prévaut sur la guerre civile larvée qui sévit dans ce pays, où les affrontements interconfessionnels et les attentats causent la perte de centaines de civils est d’autant plus écrasant qu’il s’accompagne d’une absence totale de bilan d’une invasion prétendument libératrice, déclenchée il y a dix ans.

À l’occasion de ce triste anniversaire, le site américain d’observation des médias, FAIR [1], retrace les premiers jours de l’invasion en relevant toutes les prises de positions des journalistes et autres experts médiatiques ainsi que l’engagement des télévisions et radios américaines dans la propagande belliciste. Nous vous proposons cette traduction en français de l’article original [2]. (Acrimed)

Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News – Rock Center with Brian Williams
http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/08/10354553-israel-teams-with-terror-group-to-kill-irans-nuclear-

Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran’s leaders.

The group, the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the United States, accused of killing American servicemen and contractors in the 1970s and supporting the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran before breaking with the Iranian mullahs in 1980.

The attacks, which have killed five Iranian nuclear scientists since 2007 and may have destroyed a missile research and development site, have been carried out in dramatic fashion, with motorcycle-borne assailants often attaching small magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims’ cars.

U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Obama administration is aware of the assassination campaign but has no direct involvement.

Je ne sais pas si vous avez vu la retransmission de débat des primaires républicaines, mais le passage où Perry est applaudi par la foule parce qu’il a un record de 234 exécutions capitales m’a porté au bord de la gerbe...

http://clesnes.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/09/10/rick-perry-et-ses-234-executions

Le fait que le « score » de Rick Perry au Texas (234 exécutions depuis qu’il a succédé à George Bush comme gouverneur de l’Etat en décembre 2000) ait été chaudement applaudi pendant le dernier débat des présidentiables républicains, en a choqué quelques uns.

The "Anderson Cooper Effect" on American TV Reporting from Cairo
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/525/the-anderson-cooper-effect-on-american-tv-reporting-from-cairo

During the afternoon of February 2, from the start of attacks by men on horseback and camels to the lobbing of molotov cocktails into crowds and hurling blocks of cement from rooftops, the journalists on the ground were making sense of the mayhem. They validated the narrative coming from tweeted and blogged accounts by pro-democracy protesters: the thugs started it, the response was defensive, the will to resist was strong, and the like. By the night of February 2-3, the American TV media was projecting the line that Mubarak was to blame and that the violence was a one-sided “dirty trick” of bald proportions. They also forced their producers and US-based reporters to address the fact that Americans—including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—who  had believed that “peaceful transition” was what the Egyptian regime had committed to the day before had been had. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell was scathing in her criticism of Mubarak’s incitement of violence and the US government’s gullibility.

Bon sang, il faut attendre que des journalistes reçoivent des coups de barre de fer dans la gueule pour que la profession prenne conscience de ce qu’est une dictature ? Pfiou. Si seulement Bush avait envoyé un peu plus de reporters de CNN se faire torturer à Guantanamo...