{"id":3825,"date":"2003-03-24T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2003-03-24T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2003-03-24T15:42:22","slug":"the_french_touc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/24\/the_french_touc.html","title":{"rendered":"The French Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article about German and French broadcasters <\/a>running into difficulty aligning their Iraq war coverage with their state-sponsored editorial viewpoint. A couple of somewhat amusing moments:<\/p>\n

On the main midday news on Saturday, the private broadcaster TF1, after reporting that the Americans falsely announced they held the port at Umm Qasr, Claire Chazal, a news presenter, called in a report from Jean-Claude Ferey, who was there. Uhh, he said, no doubt about it, they’re in Umm Qasr. But it’s the British not the Americans. And, Ferey explained, he had just talked to the commander, who said they’re going to avoid engaging in Basra, and let it fall when it was time.
\nTF1 viewers also got a closeup shot of a child with a bandaged head screaming with fear in Baghdad hospital. At virtually the same moment, France 2’s audience saw a much wider angle showing the child in a hospital room filled with newsmen, lights, and microphones and the station’s reporter – beware of reporters actually on the scene – saying that the child was screaming in terror at the commotion in what was an Iraqi propaganda set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article about German and French broadcasters running into difficulty aligning their Iraq war coverage with their state-sponsored editorial viewpoint. 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