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Entre un média activiste et un journaliste du PPA (parti de la presse et de l'argent), n'y aurait-il parfois qu'un cheveu (ou quelques années)? On le croirait en découvrant Indymedia.org faisant la promotion de Reporters Sans Frontière (Organe de surveillance bien connu du gouvernement vénézuelien liberticide de la presse et de défense des médias commerciaux). Et reproduisant la photo qui a fait s'esclaffer ou pleurer tous ceux qui sont obligés d'emprunter le RER à Paris (campagne offerte par France Rail) : Christine Ockrent, l'agent commercial de France Europe Express et faire-valoir de Guy Verhofstadt, une balle dans le front (le médecin de PLPL est formel, aucun organe vital n'a été touché).

On se demande qui fait quoi au desk d'Indymedia.org : Ne haïssez pas les médias, devenez les médias ? C'est fait !!!

Oui OK, question photo c'est bien Ockrent..; Mais peut-être qu'il faut aller plus loin que la photo non ??

En bas de l'article, il y a un lien "discuss this feature"
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=314490&group=webcast

Ton remarque est aussi la en Anglais:

"Corporate journalists (english)
Bendy Glu 5:22am Fri Apr 25 '03
comment#314613

I am very surprised by this picture by reporters witout borders illustrating this article. Actually everyone in France had a lot of fun about the campagne of RWB. The woman is called Christine Ockrent and she is one of the worst corporate jurnalist in France : even my mother which is not a media activist at all said it was ridiculous to imagine Christine Ockrent being killed for doing her job when you know what kind of job she does ! And just have a look at RWB website (rsf.org) and you will see that a few days before the coup in Venezuela RWB was condamning President Chavez as an ennemy of free (corporate) press. The Chairman of RWB has explained his philosophy very rudely : "We need the consensual support of the profession while a critical issue about jurnalism is polemical. How could we imagine to organize a debate about corporate media and then ask Havas or Hachette (matra-lagardère) a sponsorhip ?"

PLPL (plpl.org) a French fanzine has published the picture by ISF with this comment : "The surgent of PLPL has issued that no important organ has been damaged"..."

Je parie que Indymedia oeuvre aussi pour le Vlaams Blok ...

Ah je vous jure, çà frole l'hystérie ici ...

Merci Yvos pour cette intervention salutaire pour le bien-être planétaire.

Non, allez sérieusement, c'est si grâve que çà de critiquer le choix d'une photo de RSF sur le site d'indymedia ?

RSF c'est la réaction en plein!
Mais bon, retourner les armes contre l'adversaire c'est pas trop mal, tant qu'Indy ne paye pas les "droits" à RSF.

Posted by Raf as a comment on Indymedia.org:
I
'm quite shocked that you put Frenck media-star Christine Ockrent's "photo" as a picture with your Journalism Under Siege-article.

Not only is Ockrent leading lady of the French bourgeois media-elite. She is also a boardmember with the International Crisis Group, an "Atlantic" - this is: close to NATO - think tank that defends the duty of political, economic and military intervention, as it did in the Balkan and is doing in Central Africa.

About your links to the Reporter Sans Frontieres-website:
RSF is largely subsidised by the European Union (as you know,
strongly in favour of privatisation, free market and the like), Francois Pinault (boss of the French media-stores-giant FNAC) and by the French arms-manufacturer Lagardère.
In recent months, RSF has proven again - this time in Venezuela mainly - that it does not defend freedom of the press but "freedom of the bourgeois or pro-Western press in countries with a socialist tendency". RSF has also been a strong supporter of Yugoslavian "rock-radio" B92 which was and is subsidised by (among others) George Soros' Open Society Foundation.

Conclusion:
Please check your sources. Indymedia is discrediting itself by following Ockrent's and RSF's demagogy.

Ca y est, Indymédia.org a enterré Ockrent !
L'erreur est corrigée et j'espère, moi aussi, qu'à l'avenir RSF restera au placard !