Media and international society
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American media as an anti-model
AFRI 2005, volume VI
par - 2006This paper is the continuation of these of the last year. When covering the international crisis of the « war in Iraq », the US and British mass media have forgotten their high professional principles which have given the pattern of the functions of the press and of the journalism in our modern history. During the « Iraqi crisis », the main mass media of this country and those of the United Kingdom failed to their usual duty. Now, the time is to criticize their practice in such a situation of (...) -
Medias in the doldrums during the Haiti crisis
AFRI 2005, volume VI
par - 2006This article examines the representations given by the press of the events which shook Haiti before President Aristide’s departure from the island. It observes how the Caribbean medias, if they don’t only work with the dispatches of international agencies, could approach them. This work is based on a corpus of articles published between December 5, 2003 and March 13, 2004. After having evoked some data relating to Haiti, it describes the methods of work of the foreign journalists in Haiti (...) -
Forty years after, IPS
AFRI 2005, volume VI
par - 2006International Press Service (IPS) was set up in Rome in 1964 by a group of journalists from Europe and Latin America headed by the Italian-Argentine journalist Roberto Savio. Founded with the goal of providing a different view of Latin America and Europe, IPS has become a Third World and development news agency. From its very beginning, forty years ago, IPS was « different » : it had been created as a nonprofit entity - it was the only international journalist cooperative and has become today (...) -
Media and the political exploitation of information services
AFRI 2005, volume VI
par , - 2006Intelligence services were singularly present in the topicality of mass media during the year 2004. It acts as an erroneous image of their activities or operations of deception carried out by these experts of the data processing, in the name of their governments, during the last Gulf war. This communication belongs to the broader context of perception, by the public opinion, of a feeling of world insecurity. It is also based on an ignorance of the nature of these services by the media, (...) -
"Information society" : perspectives for the Tunis Summit
AFRI 2005, volume VI
par - 2006Even after the Geneva World Summit on the Information Society, there still is an issue about how to implement an inclusive Information Society, which serves mankind and takes into account cultural diversities. One cannot deny that the Information Society raises big social, economical and political issues ; and one such as revising the Intellectual Property Law could be seen as a step to strengthen big economic entities’ interests. We may describe the Information Society as a space of freedom (...) -
Le groupe France-Antilles
par - 2005France-Antilles - the second branch of the press group founded by Robert Hersant, was originally the name of a daily paper, launched in 1964 in Martinique and then in Guadeloupe with the support of Michel Debré’s government. In overseas territories, for the group also owns many papers in France itself, France-Antilles is today made up of 7 daily papers in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion Island, Polynesia and New Caledonia. Most of these papers are in a monopoly situation in their market. (...) -
The World Summit on information society
par - 2005At the end of the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) that took place in Geneva from 10th to 12th December 2003, the participants failed to adopt a Declaration of Principles based on a common vision of the « information society » as well as to translate their goal to reduce the « digital divide » into concrete action lines in the Plan of Action. Their inability to analyse seriously the consequences of the partial globalization of communication - induced by the (...) -
The crisis of the Anglo-Saxon information model with the ‘War in Iraq’
par - 2005When covering the international crisis preceding the « war in Iraq », the US and British mass media have forgotten their high professional principles, which have given the framework of the functions of the press and journalism in our modern history, as was the case for the French press at the beginning of the industrial era and during the III Republic. The US pattern for journalism was a reference because of the Constitution of this democracy. During the « Iraqi crisis », the main mass media of (...) -
Media towards the Occidental security evolution
AFRI 2003, volume IV
par - 2004In Western countries, mass media have been touched by the « terrorist » events of 11 September 2001 and all the others that have occurred since. Media have now their grounds « in » the territory of a crisis, which is like a war, and which has been extended to World scale. The administration, the police and military authorities recommends them to be responsible when fulfilling their security policies, for instance in the United States. The new situation of the mass media has created new problems (...) -
Roles and functions of images of cadavers in the media
AFRI 2003, volume IV
par - 2004From New York to Jenine, between September, 2001 and May, 2002, we witness three ways in which corpses are used within the framework of an international crisis. From the hidden deaths, within the framework of a particularly murderous attempt, to the deaths displayed, partially within the framework of a war of reprisals and totally in that of an episode of an apparently unlimited war, a whole story of war is declined. The absence of corpses in the media coverage of conflicts reflects the (...)
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