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21/11/2008

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Rousselot, Fabrice

4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Libération - France | 13/02/2008

French public television fears the end of advertising

French public media has gone on strike today, February 13th. They are protesting the President's plan to eliminate advertising from public television channels. "A public channel without advertising, with quality programming instead of spectacular diversions of all types? Yes, of course, yes three times over!" writes Fabrice Rousselot. "But here we are, and behind the great words, as is often the case, there is nothing. Without the money however, we can't have the public television of our dreams. Because the end of advertising isn't the end of ratings nor the renounciation of 'trash tv'. It's financing that allows us to take more risks, to present innovative programming, to develop new French television series. So it's up to Nicolas Sarkozy to provide the means to 'revolutionise' television without which we'll end up with the worst possible results of this decision, like lifeless public television."

Libération - France | 17/01/2008

Total is charged guilty of pollution

Fabrice Rousselot wants this "judgement to finally force maritime transport operators to be transparent, accountable and make a visible effort to prevent this type of catastrophe. In eight years, the Erika, an oil tanker sailing under the Maltese flag, owned by Liberians, managed by Italians and chartered by a company from Panama with an Indian captain has become, very much despite itself, the key symbol of a sector that uses opacity as one of its rules of conduct. Measures have already been taken for single bottom oil tankers, but surveillance needs to be reinforced, and more power and resources the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) created in 2003. Legislation also needs to evolve, notably on the tricky question of flags of convenience. The polluters know what they risk If they don't do anything."

Libération - France | 27/12/2007

The shortcomings of the Arche de Zoé trial

"A humanitarian fiasco, a diplomatic fiasco, a judiciary fiasco", is how Fabrice Rousselot qualifies the trial. "The 'Arche de Zoé' case is ending as it began, leaving all observers with a deep feeling of discomfort tinted with anger and incomprehension. Clinched in in a few days - dashed off, one could say -, the N'Djamela trial will not have allowed much to be understood, other than the scope of the disaster. To see the way the hearings have been hurried through since last week, it would seem it was in nobody's interest for the whole truth to be told in this sad farce. Not in the interest of Eric Breteau, guilty at the very least of frenzied amateurism and dissimulation. Not in the interest pf Chad, which did allow the plane chartered by the NGO to take-off and to land. Not in the interest of the French government which, aware to various degrees of the imposture, reacted too late."

Libération - France | 03/08/2007

Were the Bulgarian medics freed in exchange for arms?

"There is a time for praise and a time for questions", writes Fabrice Rousselot. "The declarations of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and yesterday's announcement by a Libyan source of the signature of an 168 million euro arms contract are not favorable for the unconvincing though repeated denials of the French president. By trying so hard to have us believe that the single conviction of his wife had achieved a miracle, Sarkozy finds himself having to deal with a PR operation that has gone wrong. Everyone knows all too well that, since Libya 'opened up' in 2004, France has participated in the race for military contracts with Tripoli. At some point, the president is going to have to come clean about the Bulgarian Medics affair, having built his election campaign on the theme of an 'Irreproachable Republic'."

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