The Revolution Will Be Televised

This story seemed to slip through our news nets last week, but we feel it still needs covering purely from a historical point of view. Last Wednesday, 14th July 9 pirate TV symbolically took over the Bastille by broadcasting illegally all afternoon in different neighborhood in Paris, Montpelier, Tours, Besan-on ... ending the day of TV turmoil by planting a wall of TV as close as possible to the ministry of culture and communication.

As Undercurrents reports, "One of the cabinet member took one TV to bring it to the minister Catherine Trauman [and the amendments proposal for the up coming audio-visual law], appointments were taken for September. Officials and technicians from the CSA [the frequencies regulating instance] checked out has much as they could [not much] during the day, but no repressive actions were taken." However, there was excellent follow up support on in the national press, radio and, of course, TV.

http://www.medialibre.org/

http://www.undercurrents.org/

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