27 março 2003

VITAMEDIAS
Pro-War Media Bias Seen by US Antiwar Viewers: A majority of Americans who favor the war with Iraq believe media coverage of the conflict has been excellent, while most critics of the war disagree
Polls Suggest Media Failure in Pre-War Coverage: In a Jan. 7 Knight Ridder/Princeton Research poll, 44% of respondents said they thought "most" or "some" of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were Iraqi citizens. Only 17% of those polled offered the correct answer: none.
Bombarded by War on TV: Reports from Gulf War II battlefields are riveting, horrifying, surreal -- and hardly informative. Would less be better?
I never thought I'd be saying this, but I think all TV directly broadcast from the battlefields of Iraq is an abomination. Normally I'm an absolute proponent of free speech, but now my vote would be to turn off all the cameras. [...]
The net result of all this viewing and listening is that I still have no real idea of how the war is going. What I do have is a sick feeling in my gut.
L’information «américaine» fonctionne comme un «accélérateur» de l’anti-américanisme: Pour le spécialiste des médias Dominique Wolton, la guerre échappe par nature à toute notion d'information juste.