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posted by martyb on Friday July 29 2016, @01:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the say-no-to-notoriety dept.

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.

Related: Wipe the Names of Mass Killers Off the Internet


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by rts008 on Friday July 29 2016, @06:21PM

    by rts008 (3001) on Friday July 29 2016, @06:21PM (#381652)

    Whatever happened to "we won't let them change the way we live"...?

    That train left the station long ago.

    Have you noticed:
    Department of Homeland Security
    PATRIOT Act
    TSA goons in the airports
    trigger-happy cops and security personnel
    almost everyone jumping at shadows, and expecting a terrorist behind every bush
    and much, much more?

    Most of the 'news media' spreads FUD as thick as politicians do, and we are constantly hearing about threats all around us, all the time.

    No, too late, massive changes already happened.

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