{"id":268,"date":"2005-03-14T14:17:16","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-07T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T09:22:36","slug":"minitruth-ministere-de-la-verite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmae.net\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"MiniTruth \/ Minist\u00e8re de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malgr\u00e9 l’\u00e9normit\u00e9 de la faute professionnelle de Dan Rather<\/a>, Le Monde<\/i> lui consacre un article pour honorer sa retraite<\/a>:<\/p>\n

La derni\u00e8re le\u00e7on de journalisme de Dan Rather
\nLE MONDE | 11.03.05 | 15h21 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nSi les journalistes prennent des le\u00e7ons aupr\u00e8s de Rather, il ne faut pas s’\u00e9tonner ensuite du d\u00e9veloppement des blogs, de la chute de cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 des m\u00e9dias, etc… Quant \u00e0 moi cela ne me surprend absolument pas de la part du Monde<\/i>, un journal absolument au-dessus de tout soup\u00e7on de partialit\u00e9! (comme tous les journaux fran\u00e7ais d’ailleurs).<\/p>\n

Le pr\u00e9sentateur vedette de CBS, Dan Rather, a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 son dernier journal, mercredi 9 mars, finissant par un mot qui l’a rendu c\u00e9l\u00e8bre : \u00ab\u00a0Courage.\u00a0\u00bb Il l’applique aux Am\u00e9ricains depuis le 11-Septembre et aux soldats, \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 ceux qui sont opprim\u00e9s, confront\u00e9s \u00e0 des probl\u00e8mes financiers ou de sant\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, et aussi \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 – ses – chers journalistes dans les endroits o\u00f9 t\u00e9moigner de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 veut dire tout risquer\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nUn message destin\u00e9 sans doute \u00e0 Giulana Sgrena, cible des cowboys am\u00e9ricains<\/a> ? Ou aux idiots utiles Chesnot et Malbrunot<\/a> ?
\nLes soldats sauront se d\u00e9brouiller sans les encouragements de Rather, car ils savent bien que les journalistes travaillent<\/a> contre eux<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Reporter pendant plusieurs d\u00e9cennies sur la plupart des conflits, il sait qu’il n’y a pas forc\u00e9ment besoin d’aller loin pour \u00ab\u00a0tout risquer\u00a0\u00bb. Il a toujours pris au s\u00e9rieux le r\u00f4le de quatri\u00e8me pouvoir de la presse, qui est d’interpeller les puissants. Et ne s’en est jamais priv\u00e9, se faisant beaucoup d’ennemis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nSous entendu: moi aussi je risque ma vie!<\/i>. Il se moque de qui ? Les journalistes ne meurent pas en pr\u00e9sentant le JT de 20h, mais dans les prisons iraniennes, aux mains des terroristes islamistes, ou h\u00e9las parfois en prenant une balle perdue…
\nConcernant le r\u00f4le du \u00ab\u00a04\u00e8me pouvoir\u00a0\u00bb, je suis assez curieux: interpeller les puissants ? Moi qui pensait na\u00efvement que la presse \u00e9tait l\u00e0 pour rapporter les faits, \u00e9tablir la v\u00e9rit\u00e9… Mais quand on analyse le RatherGate<\/a>, c’est exactement ce qui s’est pass\u00e9: au lieu de chercher la v\u00e9rit\u00e9, Rather a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 des documents qui ont tout de suite paru extr\u00eamement suspects et qui n’ont pas r\u00e9sist\u00e9 plus de quelques heures \u00e0 l’analyse par des bloggers<\/a>… C’est donc \u00e7a l’id\u00e9al m\u00e9diatique ? Et dire que Le Monde<\/i> ose s’en r\u00e9clamer, quel aveu!<\/p>\n

En 1986 d\u00e9j\u00e0, pendant une semaine, il avait termin\u00e9 ses journaux par le mot : \u00ab\u00a0Courage.\u00a0\u00bb Une fa\u00e7on de protester alors contre les r\u00e9ductions d’effectifs – plus d’une centaine – dans la salle de r\u00e9daction, dont CBS News ne s’est jamais vraiment remise. Avec ce mot, il adresse aussi aujourd’hui un message pour le futur, pour que CBS News – \u00e0 73 ans, il va continuer \u00e0 y travailler comme reporter – ne tombe pas dans \u00ab\u00a0l’hollywoodisation de l’information\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nC’est s\u00fbr qu’avec des journalistes \u00e0 la cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 et \u00e0 l’\u00e9thique aussi fortes que Rather les m\u00e9dias deviennent indiff\u00e9rentiables des sc\u00e9narios de s\u00e9rie B hollywoodiens… (notez que Rather touchait des salaires mirobolants, plusieurs millions de dollars par an, alors sa protestation contre le licenciement de quelques lointains coll\u00e8gue… quelle solidarit\u00e9!)<\/p>\n

Depuis la diffusion en pleine campagne \u00e9lectorale, dans l’\u00e9mission \u00ab\u00a0Sixty Minutes\u00a0\u00bb, qu’il pr\u00e9sentait, d’un faux rapport sur le service militaire de George W. Bush, ses ennemis ne l’ont pas l\u00e2ch\u00e9 jusqu’\u00e0 obtenir son d\u00e9part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIl faut peut-\u00eatre rappeler le contexte: 2 mois avant l’\u00e9lection, alors que Kerry claironne sur tous les tons qu’il est un h\u00e9ros<\/a> (et en mentant sans \u00eatre inqui\u00e9t\u00e9 plus que \u00e7a par les m\u00e9dias US<\/a>), Rather produit des documents estampill\u00e9s Texas Air National Guard affirmant que Bush a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb lors de son service militaire… Et ces documents sont des faux grossiers<\/i>. Il a fallu quelques heures (je sais, je me r\u00e9p\u00e8te) pour qu’ils soient identifi\u00e9s comme faux. Et Rather, avec son salaire \u00e0 7 chiffres, ses \u00e9quipes d’enqu\u00eateurs, n’a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 foutu de le d\u00e9couvrir par lui-m\u00eame ? Et quelle attitude a-t-il adopt\u00e9 ensuite ? Il a tout ni\u00e9 en bloc!<\/i>. Il a dit que les documents \u00e9taient vrais, que ses contradicteurs ne pouvaient avoir raison puisqu’ils \u00e9taient conservateurs, puis que les documents \u00e9taient \u00ab\u00a0faux mais repr\u00e9sentatifs de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb (fake but accurate<\/i>: faux mais r\u00e9aliste)… Bref au lieu de dire \u00ab\u00a0merde j’ai fait une \u00e9norme connerie\u00a0\u00bb il a persist\u00e9 dans l’erreur. A quelques semaines des \u00e9lections.
\nHeureusement que cela provoque une r\u00e9action. Le contraire serait inqui\u00e9tant: si les journalistes peuvent mentir et faire pencher la balance d’une \u00e9lection aussi importante que celle l\u00e0 et s’en tirer<\/i>, il y a un r\u00e9el probl\u00e8me de d\u00e9mocratie! Le Monde<\/i> devrait plut\u00f4t faire l’\u00e9loge des bloggers, garants de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9!<\/p>\n

Les r\u00e9publicains les plus conservateurs le ha\u00efssent, depuis le d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1970, quand il suivait l’actualit\u00e9 de la Maison Blanche sous Richard Nixon, avec lequel il se montra peu cl\u00e9ment. En 1988, il s’emporta contre George Bush p\u00e8re, lors d’un entretien tr\u00e8s tendu. C’est cette ann\u00e9e-l\u00e0 que son journal a perdu la premi\u00e8re place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nOui et c’est en 1970 aussi que sont n\u00e9s les blogs…<\/p>\n

Les talk-shows conservateurs, qui n’ont cess\u00e9 de gagner en influence, s’acharnent sur lui. Au moins deux sites Internet lui sont consacr\u00e9s (ratherbiased.com et rathergate.com). Quant \u00e0 son rival et ami de NBC, Tom Brokaw, il a pris sa d\u00e9fense en d\u00e9non\u00e7ant un \u00ab\u00a0djihad contre Dan Rather et CBS\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nEt pourquoi des talk-shows conservateurs au fait ? Peut-\u00eatre parce que les m\u00e9dias US, \u00e0 l’instar des m\u00e9dias europ\u00e9ens, sont fortement teint\u00e9s id\u00e9ologiquement ? Peut-\u00eatre parce qu’ils font passer leurs opinions avant la v\u00e9rit\u00e9, quand \u00e7a les arrange ?
\nQuand sont n\u00e9s les deux sites en question au fait ? Ils datent tous les deux du mois de septembre 2004, c’est \u00e0 dire du RatherGate… Brokaw n’a pas de site \u00ab\u00a0anti-Brokaw\u00a0\u00bb lui… ce n’est donc pas par \u00ab\u00a0haine\u00a0\u00bb que des sites lui sont consacr\u00e9s, mais bien parce qu’il a commis une \u00e9norme erreur, et tent\u00e9 d’influencer une \u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle en se servant de sa cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 (usurp\u00e9e) de journaliste!<\/p>\n

Il a en effet toujours refus\u00e9 cette image de journaliste partisan : \u00ab\u00a0Je suis ind\u00e9pendant. Quels que soient les gouvernements, ils essaient d’instiller la peur en vous. Si vous avez raison, ils vous attaqueront, vous, le messager, car ils ne peuvent vous attaquer sur les faits\u00a0\u00bb,expliquait-il en octobre. Rien n’efface quarante ans de journalisme. Courage !<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nPauvre Rather, victime du gouvernement US! Qu’il aille dire \u00e7a aux journalistes assassin\u00e9s ou emprisonn\u00e9s en Russie, en Ukraine, en Iran, en Colombie, en Iraq… Et il n’est pas partisan ? Non, du tout, comme l’a parfaitement d\u00e9montr\u00e9 le rathergate! Et c’est le RatherGate qui a mis un terme \u00e0 la carri\u00e8re de Rather, pas le gouvernement US! Par ailleurs les faits dans cette affaire sont accablants. Il suffit pourtant de regarder une simple image<\/a> pour constater \u00e0 quel point les faits sont contre Rather… . Mais peut-\u00eatre que les journalistes du Monde<\/i> ne lisent pas encore les blogs ? Il est grand temps de le faire.
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\nI found an article about Dan Rather’s farewell in the newspaper Le Monde<\/i>. It’s a complete whitewash. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

Dan Rather’s gives his last journalism lesson
\nLE MONDE | 11.03.05 | 15h21 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf journalists take lessons with Rather, they should not be surprised about the increasing blog influence, and of their own loss of credibility… French medias seem to have learnt real quick, especially Le Monde<\/a><\/i>. Or maybe did they teach Rather first ?<\/p>\n

CBS’s new anchor Dan Rather made his last appearence wednesday the 9nth, ending with the word that made him famous: \u00ab\u00a0courage\u00a0\u00bb. Since 9\/11, he dedicated this word to the Armericans, the soldiers, and to \u00ab\u00a0all of the oppressed, needy, or sick people\u00a0\u00bb, and also to \u00ab\u00a0my colleagues in places where reporting the truth means to risk everything\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWas that some message to Giuliana Sgrena, targeted by American cowboys<\/a> ? Or to the french useful fools Chesnot and Malbrunot<\/a> ? Soldiers don’t need his fake encouragement, and they know so well that journalists are on the other<\/a> side<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reporter for decades on many conflicts, he knows that one doesn’t need to go far away in order to risk \u00ab\u00a0everything\u00a0\u00bb. He always took seriously the fourth estate’s duty which is to questionnate the mighty. And he never failed to, and many became his foes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nYeah, yeah we got it: Rather risked his life<\/i>. Who is he trying to fool ? News anchor don’t die in studios, but journalists<\/i> do in iranian jails, at the hands of islamic terrorists, ou sometimes from a random bullet…
\nAbout the \u00ab\u00a04th estate’s duty\u00a0\u00bb, I’m really curious. Questionnate the mighty ? I thought the press was supposed to report facts, to unveal the truth. But looking at the RatherGate<\/a>, he did exactly the opposite: instead of seeking the truth, Rather publicized extremely suspicious documents which did not resist a few hours to the critical eye of a few bloggers<\/a>. Is that the ideal of mainstream media ? To rush stories to the headlines without any fact checking ?<\/p>\n

In 1986 already, for a week, he had closed his news with the word \u00ab\u00a0Courage\u00a0\u00bb. He was protesting against downsizing -more than a hundred- at CBS News, which never really recovered. With this word, he also sends a message to the future: CBS News, where he will keep on working at 73, must not fall into an \u00ab\u00a0information Hollywood\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nLook who’s talking! A man with such a credibilty and ethics! It’s no wonder that it’s every day harder to tell between movies and news. (also note that Rather earned a 7 figures salary, and his protest against downsizing seems quite lame. how many coworkers could be hired back if he accepted a 10% salary decrease ?)<\/p>\n

Since the publication of forged documents in \u00ab\u00a0Sixty Minutes\u00a0\u00bb about GW Bush’s military record, his enemies never let him breathe until they obtained his retirement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n2 month before the US presidential elections, when Kerry’s lies about Cambodia and his military record are under scrutiny (led by his own band of brothers<\/i>, don’t ask where the media were), Rather shows documents purporting that Bush was \u00ab\u00a0protected\u00a0\u00bb during his TANG service. The documents are fakes, forgeries. And blatant ones at that. Why was anyone on Rather’s team unable to uncover that by themselves ? Wy didn’t Rather acknowledge that he had just made an enormous mistake ? He preferred to attack bloggers: a republican \u00ab\u00a0lynch mob\u00a0\u00bb. Then he changed his line of defense: \u00ab\u00a0documents are fake but accurate\u00a0\u00bb. Talk about denial… All of that within weeks of the presidential elections.
\nThe blogger’s reaction was sane: if journalists could lie without anyone noticing, that would be dangerous. What would democracy mean, if a handul of news anchor could feed millions propaganda ? <\/p>\n

The most conservative fringe of the Republicans hate him since the beginning of the 70’s, when he used to report from the White House with little leniency for Nixon. In 1988, he lost his nerves against G H Bush, in a very tenseful interview. That year, news on CBS lost their lead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nRepublican hatred for Rather began in the early 70’s. Were there bloggers back then ? I’ll ask Al Gore if he had invented the Internet already…<\/p>\n

Right wing talkshows, with an ever growing influence, keep piling on him. At least two Internet sites are devoted to him (Ratherbiased<\/a> and RatherGate<\/a>). His friend and rival Tom Brokaw took his defense, denouncing a \u00ab\u00a0jihad against Rather and CBS\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nBy the way, why are the \u00ab\u00a0right wing talk shows\u00a0\u00bb growing in influence ? Maybe because US MSM, just like european ones, are biased ? Maybe because they sometimes put their opinions before truth ?
\nOh, and were are the two sites above born ? They both are from fall’04! Not from the 70’s (what a ridiculous claim)! Brokaw, who’s as guilty of bias as Rather, has no site for him. It’s no for sheer hatred that sites are devoted to Rather, but because he not only made an enormous mistake, he denied committing one, he tried to influence an election using his journalist credibility (now he has none left).<\/p>\n

He always refused to be portrayed as a biased journalist. In october he explained: \u00ab\u00a0I’m independant. Whatever the government, they try to instill fear into you. If you’re right, they’ll attack you, the messenger, because they can’t attack the facts.<\/i>\u00ab\u00a0. That’s 40 years of journalism. Courage!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nOh poor Rather victim of the US government! He didn’t lose his job because of George Bush, Karl Rove or whoever. He lost his job and probably did enormous damage to the MSM by showing forged documents without any serious fact checking, just because they would hurt GW Bush and denying it for weeks. And Le Monde<\/i> sings the praises of Rather, using a quote from his denial of the rathergate. It shows us where Le Monde<\/i> stands: it’s not a newspaper, it’s a propaganda leaflet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malgr\u00e9 l’\u00e9normit\u00e9 de la faute professionnelle de Dan Rather, Le Monde lui consacre un article pour honorer sa retraite: La derni\u00e8re le\u00e7on de journalisme de Dan Rather LE MONDE | 11.03.05 | 15h21 Si les journalistes prennent des le\u00e7ons aupr\u00e8s …<\/p>\n

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