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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:46PM (#381800)

    The last killer in Munich a week ago - he was an Iranian Muslim born in Germany to Iranian immigrants. His name was David Ali Sonbody.

    Believe it or not, some news organizations are calling him a right-wing killer, because he supposedly admired Anders Breivik. Yes, the media is literally trying to tell you that Muslim terrorists who kill while shouting "Allah Ackbar" are right wingers.

    The BBC took it a step further. They actually chopped off the "Ali" from his name and called him "David Sonbody", until the public backlash started and they changed their minds.

    Angela Merkel was caught on an open mic a few months ago telling Mark Zuckerberg to help censor "anti-immigrant" talk on Facebook. He agreed to help.

    OF COURSE the media will use this to further their goals of being apologists for Muslim barbarity.

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