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罗伯特Fisk ： 难怪bloggers赢取
星期六， 2007年7月21日
这些没勇气的论文解释为什么更多人比转动的页是Googling 我藐视互联网。 它是不负责任，并且，经常，怨恨网。 并且我没有时间为Blogopops。 但这解释二张没勇气的报纸的传说为什么越来越人们是Googling而不是转动的页。 首先洛杉矶时报。 去年，记者标记Arax由无背长椅土耳其语当局在1915年种族灭绝分配一个定期故事一个和半百万亚美尼亚人。 Arax的报告是否在地方犹太社区之内集中于分裂称种族灭绝种族灭绝。 它是一个老论据。 土耳其人坚持-反对所有事实和文件和目击者的报告和反对亚美尼亚人是一次内战的受害者的历史-。 以色列政府和它新，诺贝尔得奖的总统，西蒙·佩雷斯-急切保留与现代土耳其的舒适联系-喜欢采取事件的伊斯坦布尔的虚伪版本。 然而，许多犹太人，在以色列内外，勇敢地坚持，他们构成种族灭绝的确前体对六百万个犹太人最新纳粹浩劫。 因为记者在问题”和“利害冲突”，有一个“位置，但Arax的种族灭绝报告在管理编辑道格拉斯Frantz命令被否决了。 读者已经猜测Arax是亚美尼亚美国。 他的罪孽，它似乎， 2005年是那方式后面，他，并且其他五位作家给LA提醒他们的时间编辑写了一个正式备忘录本文的样式规则意味- “不是涉嫌的种族灭绝”的亚美尼亚种族灭绝将叫正义。 Frantz，然而，描述了老备忘录作为“请愿”和明显地指责了Arax登陆任务通过处理也是亚美尼亚人的华盛顿编辑。 故事被再分配对华盛顿记者富有的西蒙，集中土耳其的企图阻拦国会从认可亚美尼亚屠杀-，并且故事仍然跑在标题“种族灭绝决议下离确定很远的地方”。 LA Times executives then went all coy, declining interviews, although Frantz admitted in a blog (of course) that he had “put a hold” on Arax’s story because of concerns that the reporter “had expressed personal views about the topic in a public (sic) manner…”. Ho ho. Truth can be dangerous for the LA Times. Even more so, it seems, when the managing editor himself - Frantz, no less - once worked for The New York Times, where he referred to the Armenian massacres as, yes, an “alleged” genocide. Frantz, it turns out, joined the LA Times as its Istanbul correspondent. Well, Arax has since left the LA Times after a settlement which forestalled a lawsuit against the paper for defamation and discrimination. His employers heaped praise upon his work while Frantz has just left the paper to become Middle East correspondent of the Wall Street Journal based in - of course, you guessed it - Istanbul. But now let’s go north of the border, to the Toronto Globe and Mail, which assigned columnist Jan Wong to investigate a college murder in Montreal last September. Wong is not a greatly loved reporter. A third-generation Canadian, she moved to China during Mao’s “cultural revolution” and, in her own words, “snitched on class enemies and did my best to be a good little Maoist.” She later wrote a “Lunch With” series for the Globe in which she acted all sympathetic to interviewee guests to catch them out. “When they relax, that’s when their guard is down,” she told a college newspaper. “It’s a trick, but it’s legit.” Yuk! Wong’s take on the Montreal Dawson College shooting, however, was more serious. She compared the killer to a half-Algerian Muslim who murdered 14 women in another Montreal college shooting in 1989 and to a Russian immigrant who killed four university colleagues in Montreal in 1992. “In all three cases,” she wrote, “the perpetrator was not ‘pure laine’, the argot for a ‘pure’ francophone. Elsewhere, to talk of racial purity is repugnant. Not in Quebec.” Painfully true, I’m afraid. Parisians, who speak real French, would never use such an expression - pure laine translates literally as “pure wool” but means “authentic” - but some Montrealers do. Wong, however, had touched a red hot electric wire in “multicultural” Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper complained. “Grossly irresponsible,” said the man who enthusiastically continued the policy of sending Canadian troops on their suicidal mission to Afghanistan. The French-Canadian newspaper Le Devoir - can you imagine a British paper selling a single copy if it called itself “Duty”? - published a cartoon of Wong with exaggerated Chinese slanted eyes. Definitely not pure laine for Le Devoir. The hate mail was even more to the point. Some contained excrement. But then the Globe and Mail ran for cover. Its editor-in-chief, Edward Greenspon, wrote a cowardly column in which he claimed that the offending paragraphs “should have been removed” from her story. “We regret that we allowed these words to get into a reported (sic) article,” he sniffled. There had been a breakdown in what he hilariously called “the editorial quality control process”. Now I happen to know a bit about the Globe’s “quality control process”. Some time ago, I discovered that the paper had reprinted an article of mine from The Independent about the Armenian genocide. But they had tampered with it, altering my word “genocide” to read “tragedy”. The Independent’s subscribers promise to make no changes to our reports. But when our syndication folk contacted the Globe, they discovered that the Canadian paper had simply stolen the article. They were made to pay a penalty fee. But as for the censorship of the word “genocide”, a female executive explained to The Independent that nothing could be done because the editor responsible had “since left the Globe and Mail”. It’s the same old story, isn’t it? Censor then whinge, then cut and run. No wonder the bloggers are winning. Have Your Say: Robert Fisk: No wonder the bloggers are winning Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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