Arrêt sur images

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Arrêt sur images was a weekly television program, created, produced and moderated by the journalist Daniel Schneidermann . The broadcast started in 1995 on La Cinquième , from January 2002 the program was then broadcast on France 5 .

history

The program was produced at the request of the President of La Cinquième, Jean-Marie Cavada. This supported them as an educational tool in the context of the educational role of the broadcaster, as defined by the CSA .

His successor, Jérôme Clément, continued the program, followed by the various directors of the station after the transition to the France Télévisions group : Jean-Pierre Cottet, Daniel Goudineau and Claude-Yves Robin. In this context, it is the only La Cinquième broadcast to be taken over by France 5.

principle

Developed, produced and moderated by journalist Daniel Schneidermann, who initially moderated with Pascale Clark, it aims to analyze television, decipher the means by which it influences television viewers, and explain its intentions.

Chroniclers and journalists around Daniel Schneidermann take a look at pictures that have appeared on television in the previous days. These include: David Abiker, Judith Bernard, Sébastien Bohler, John Paul Lepers, Maja Neskovic, Christelle Ploquin, Perrine Dutreil, Aurélie Windels, Ioulia Kapoustina ...

The program also allows the makers of the images presented in the program, as well as specialists in the topics covered, to have their say.

France 5 shows old programs on the Internet for free. The visible version is a version without montage that sometimes continues after the credits. It is not uncommon for the conversations to continue even after the program has ended. In a blog by Chloé Delaume it is possible to find out more about the background of the program and the portraits of those involved.

In September 2006, at the request of France Télévision Interactive, the unabridged version on the Internet was replaced by the version shown on television. This was accompanied by protests from Internet users.

Criticism of television through television

Arrêt sur images is a response to analyzes of the television image that its creator has carried out for several years in the newspaper Le Monde . The program preceded others in which television tries to take a critical look at itself: Canal + tries to “ decipher ” the information provided by television and other media and the France 2 presenter stands every week the TV viewers' criticisms of the broadcaster's handling of information and answer questions.

However, the program itself was criticized, its neutrality questioned and also whether it was actually able to criticize the television system to which it belongs. When the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu took part in a program by Arrêt sur images in 1996 , he actually wanted to use this plateau to analyze the way in which television had reported on the strikes in December 1995. However, he was allegedly unable to communicate because of the constant interruptions by Jean-Marie Cavada, which were repeated on his own program La Marche du Siècle . As a result, Pierre Bourdieu began to criticize the functioning of television as a whole.

The complete recording of the program, i.e. without montage and cuts, was available on the program page. In this way, the Internet viewers were able to take a critical look at the program itself, to analyze the assembly selection, to recognize where it was cut, etc. However, since September 10, 2006 this integral version is no longer available online. The Pétition ASI website has been set up to restore this offer.

Some highlights

Sarajevo

Two direct reports from a special envoy in Sarajevo were broadcast one day later. There you saw the special envoy with the city of Saravejo behind him.

However, a more careful examination of the picture showed that in these two reports the clouds were the same! It was actually direct, but it took place in the studio; the background was supposedly just an illustration (which in itself certainly isn't fraudulent, but it would have been more honest to mention it).

National Assembly

While a speaker is speaking, the camera shows three MPs who seem to be secretly laughing together. However, the “National Assembly” logo does not appear on these images. A more detailed examination of the speech shows that this sequence has been inserted as a replacement for the original images: in fact, during the speech two of the MPs are not in the same place, wearing ties that are different from the previous ones ... and the third is not at all there!

Manipulated tapes

The program regularly shows excerpts broadcast by other stations. There are completely different tapes for identical images. This was particularly the case with the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Earlier

Arrêt sur images had an ancestor in the written press: Presse-Actualité was published by Bayard presse in the 1960s and critically analyzed the various sources of the same information from other newspapers or magazines.