{"id":431,"date":"2004-12-13T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=431"},"modified":"2004-12-13T23:17:11","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T05:17:11","slug":"france-orders-tv-station-off-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"France Orders TV Station Off Airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France, that high-and-mighty bastion of European enlightenment, may be beginning to grasp the danger of the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=518&#038;ncid=732&#038;e=7&#038;u=\/ap\/20041214\/ap_on_re_eu\/france_hezbollah_tv\">propaganda being broadcast within its borders<\/a> &#8212; the propaganda of the radical enemy we are currently struggling with throughout the globe and Israel has wrestled with for decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>France&#8217;s highest administrative body on Monday ordered the TV station of Lebanon&#8217;s militant Hezbollah group off French airwaves within 48 hours for broadcasting hateful content in some shows and posing risks to public order.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came after a Nov. 23 Al-Manar program quoted someone described as an expert on Zionist affairs warning of &#8220;Zionist attempts&#8221; to transmit dangerous diseases like AIDS to Arab countries. Another program the same day glorified attacks against Israel, the administrative body said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, obviously something needs to be done here.  Some kind of strong message needs to be sent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Council of State ordered Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat to stop broadcasting Al-Manar within two days or pay a fine of $6,600 a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$6,600?  Well, that ain&#8217;t much of a message.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The station broadcast some programs that were &#8220;openly contrary&#8221; to a French law banning incitement to hate, a situation that poses &#8220;risks to maintaining public order,&#8221; the council said in its 11-page ruling.<\/p>\n<p>However, the council left open the possibility that Al-Manar could keep operating if the company that airs the station, the Lebanese Communication Group, shows itself ready to modify its programs to conform with French law.<\/p>\n<p>In Beirut, Al-Manar TV condemned the French ban as &#8220;a dangerous precedent&#8221; against the Arab media and blamed Israeli pressure for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah yes, I thought we had gotten too far into the story without Israel being blamed.  It is obviously the Jews that made the Arabs lie.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of $6,600 a day apparently is not enough to bring on any honest self-examination or even a moment of pretended contrition.  Hey, France, just let it air and get back to me when you really understand the threat civilization is facing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France, that high-and-mighty bastion of European enlightenment, may be beginning to grasp the danger of the propaganda being broadcast within its borders &#8212; the propaganda of the radical enemy we are currently struggling with throughout the globe and Israel has wrestled with for decades. France&#8217;s highest administrative body on Monday ordered the TV station of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-general","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}