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Several French news organizations, including Le Monde, BFM-TV, La Croix, Europe 1, and France 24, are changing their policies relating to the broadcast and publishing of terrorist names and photographs. Le Monde's director argued that publishing the information amounted to "posthumous glorification":
Several French news organisations have said they will no longer publish photographs of people responsible for terrorist killings, to avoid bestowing "posthumous glorification".
Le Monde published an editorial after the latest attack, the murder of an elderly priest in a church near Rouen by two men claiming allegiance to Islamic State. Under the headline "Resisting the strategy of hate", Le Monde argued on Wednesday that all elements of society had to be involved in the struggle against terrorism, and that media organisations had a special role to play.
"The sites and newspapers that produce this information cannot excuse themselves from self-examination on several fronts. Since Isis terrorism first appeared, Le Monde has changed its practices several times," the newspaper said.
It first chose not to republish images from Isis propaganda documents. Then, after the attack in Nice on 14 July, when a truck drove through crowds enjoying the Bastille Day public holiday, Le Monde said it had decided to "no longer publish photographs of the perpetrators of killings, to avoid the potential effect of posthumous glorification".
France Télévisions [sic] resisted following suit, with the executive director of news saying, "we must resist this race towards self-censorship and grand declarations of intention."
There have been similar calls in the U.S. to pressure media organizations to self-censor the names and photographs of mass killers, culminating in the formation of a campaign called No Notoriety, founded by the parents of one of the victims of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @05:16PM
hmmm ... we should then also not mention the two atomic bombs, the first and second world war, that famous photopicture of the soldier getting shot in spain and maybe also let's forget all that "arbeit macht frei" old testament religion eradication attempt?
rather we should inform ALOT about what innocent lives were impacted by this completely useless act of craziness. i mean, we got heartthrob and emotions with all that "big brother" TV stuff, so it is assumed, the media could do some real emotional damage to would be copy-cats?
you know, maybe somebody will overhaul the classification of crazies and then we need some pictures of them?
maybe we need to remember that allowing a foreign country (usa) with no shared borders to bomb the shit out of your neighborhood (middle east) will set off all kind of angry and volatile wasps that are going to sting you and not the far far away bomb hurdling country.
anyways, at least now we know why nothing much is known about antic societies, like the pyramid buildings: french news medias non-coverage.
the only good side is, that you can now forget about france being not safe and go about your regular/normal business because media has harry potter like magically disappeared the threat with the wave of the magic pen and printing press...
anyways, it doubt paradise needs to rely on human made media to keep track of the admitted heros.