That the majority of our pseudo journalists are mediocrities patent, this is neither new nor a find worth any merit. Debited to the nonsense column lengths do not generate more surprise or dismay. And blunders, conscious and otherwise, committed by the horde of journalists who officiate in our press (gutters when it is not a sounding board for the jargon) can be long and no longer fit into the unusual order of things. This became the rule and the professionalism, thoroughness and integrity are the exception. By cons, where people believed to be members of the intelligentsia in the fall of Tunisia logorrhea (diarrhea oral) of a scribbler who makes a light that encourages us to ask serious questions.
I have some serious issues since my friend Tarek Hasegawa, usually very picky in his writings and speeches, has said a signed article of the "feathers" of some misguided Bassouma Chokri ( http:/ / www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=263023105311&id=1511773313&ref=mf ), expected to be published on the newspaper "Achourouk" and which was (fortunately for that matter) censored. By doing so, I had the impression that Tarek and I hope I'm there actually doing wrong, joins the feeling of the author censored by expressing his astonishment and incomprehension of the reasons why the newspaper not to publish the offending article.
I am surprised that my friend Tarek be surprised. I also do not understand the reasons for what Tarek surprised. Is it for the principle of freedom of expression? Is it for the principle of freedom of defamation? Or is this all fits into the general discussion of patriotism, identity and community spirit ... and everything else that goes with it, something which in my view ill becomes one whose choice was to his life and his family in a country whose values are mildly different from its country of origin. What surprised
Tarek? Because we have ignored (more appropriate to me that censored) a journalist who is supposed confusion between three concepts, albeit with a similar-sounding terminology, but quite distinct from one another?
Come see what it is near. The author of the article "censored, asks in a tone of indignation and bitterness, why some personalities of the cultural scene Tunisia have been decorated by the French Minister of Culture, Frederic Mitterrand. Slice if it was done is that there eel (s) rock. And if the recipients have accepted that they are complicit and even a bit treacherous.
That reporter was surprised at the things that is totally legitimate and an essential condition for the exercise of his vocation. But when tax those who were awarded "legionnaires" (in the historical sense of the word and not in the legal sense), the case takes a different turn and even falls within the ambit of the law. In Indeed, our friend "journalist" falsely believed that our artists and intellectuals have been decorated with the Legion of Honor. " Then, starting with the definition of only the first part of the expression he made a shortcut to reach the conclusion that artists and intellectuals are decorated like those of Legionnaires who enlisted in the "foreign legion".
The "journalist" would have to search very simple to understand that the particle "Legion" has a different meaning when it is used before the word "honor" than when it is used before the term "foreign" or "Republican" or else ... Second, the Jaibi, Jebali and company have received the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, a distinction ( http://fr.wikipedia .org / wiki / Ordre_des_Arts_et_des_Lettres ) the criteria and the reasons for granting are fundamentally different from those required for a "Legion d'Honneur" ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L% C3% A9gion_d'honneur ). This makes them people who have recognized their talent and sense of creativity and non-Legionnaires nor in the pejorative sense nor in the benign sense of the word. Instead, it has corrected an injustice and a lack of national recognition, a recognition which is long in coming and probably will not given the controversial nature of such persons.
What our reporter so circumspect, and our friend Tarek, where he shared the reasoning of the first, rest assured. There is no process of bastardisation in the case. There are certainly more complacent and I agreed that this raises questions about the real merits of some of those decorated. But to question the value Artist's Jaibi or Jebali ... and to imply a lack of patriotism from these people who are our memory, our identity and our ambassadors, this is a step that should not be crossed.
