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‘Macron…
WHAT?’ French TV channel ‘censors’ photo of Yellow Vest
protester’s placard
RT,
16
December, 2018
TV
channel France3 has “fixed” a placard held by a Yellow Vest
protester, which urged President Emmanuel Macron to resign. The
broadcaster explained that the sign was broadcast reading just
Macron, due to a “human error.”
The
unfortunate blunder occurred on Saturday during an evening news
program that was covering the ongoing Yellow Vest protests.
Among
videos and images of the protests, France3 featured a photo supplied
by Agence France Presse (AFP). It shows a couple of mounted police
officers watching the crowds outside the Opera building in Paris on
Saturday. One of the Yellow Vests holds high a placard,
reading “Macron
out.” Here’s
this photo.
Everything
was the same in the France3 broadcast, except for a ‘tiny’ detail
– the “out” part of the slogan had mysteriously vanished from
the image.
The
photo-doctoring did not escape sharp-eyed watchers, who promptly
accused the broadcaster of “censorship.” The
replay of the program is publicly available online, and France3
acknowledged the blunder, blaming it
on a “mistake.”
“There
was no intent to hide the sign last night. It's a human mistake,” the
broadcaster tweeted, supplying the unmodified image. “We
have identified the source. It will not happen again.”
#GiletsJaunes
Aucune volonté de masquer cette pancarte dans #jt1920 @JTweFrance3 hier soir.
C’est une erreur humaine. Nous en avons identifié l’origine.
Cela ne se renouvellera pas.
It
remains unclear how, exactly, one can doctor a picture in such
fashion by “mistake.” Aside from the uproar and
accusations of Orwellian-grade censorship, the blunder triggered a
wave of jokes.
Some
users “fixed” the
picture for France3, doctoring it harder. Here’s an example – the
placard now reads “Long
Live Macron!”
+ 
= 360°
#Novlangue 1984/2018#Message #Original des #GiletsJaunes
"#Macron #Dégage"
↓#Message #Autocensuré & #Médiatiquement #Manipulé
"#Macron"
↓
Demain?#Message #GéoPolitiquement #Correct
"#Vive #Macron"
N.B.#Exécutif#Législatif#Judiciaire
Quatrième #Pouvoir: #Presse & #Médias pic.twitter.com/LzTVwCSfmy
Others mused over who might have been responsible for such an unfortunate “mistake.” Some jokingly suggested that Alexandre Benalla, the embattled former security aide to Macron, might have had his hand in it.
Benalla
has been involved in several high-profile scandals. Namely, he was
caught on tape getting up-close and personal with protesters earlier
this year. Macron's aide was “helping” police to beat them …
while sporting borrowed police gear himself.
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