Je viens de faire une retranscription de l’extrait de l’entretien entre Anthony Blinken et Mitt Romney, durant lequel ils expliquent pourquoi il y a un soutien bipartisan à la fermeture de Tiktok : parce que Tiktok donne une mauvaise image d’Israël, on y parle trop des Palestiniens et pas assez du Hamas. [Note : la coupure dans la réponse de Blinken n’est pas très honnête, puisqu’il manque toute la première partie, dans laquelle il dit qu’une des raisons c’est la souffrance des Palestiniens de Gaza. Ma retranscription est désormais complète, à partir de la version non coupée.]
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Romney: Why has the PR been so awful? I know that’s not your area of expertise, but you have to have some thoughts on that… Which is, I mean, as you’ve said why has Hamas disappeared in terms of public perception?
An offer is on the table to have a ceasefire and yet the world is screaming about Israel. It’s like why not screaming about Hamas: accept the ceasefire, bring home the hostages! It’s said… It’s all the other way around. I…
Typically the Israelis are good at PR. What’s happened here? How have they and we been so ineffective at communicating? The realities there and [our point of view].
Blinken: Look, I think there are two things.
One is that, look, there is an inescapable reality, and that is the inescapable reality of people who have and continue to suffer grievously in Gaza. And that’s real, and we have to be focused on that and attend to that.
At the same time, how this narrative has evolved, yeah, it’s a great question. I don’t have a good answer to that. There, one can speculate about what some of the causes might be. I don’t know. I can tell you this. We were talking about this a little bit over dinner. With Cindy, I think in my time in Washington, which is a little bit over 30 years, the single biggest change has been in the information environment.
And when I started out in the early 1990s, everyone did the same thing. You woke up in the morning, you opened the door of your apartment, your house, you picked up a hard copy of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal. And then if you had a television in your office, you turned it on at 6.30 or 7 o’clock and watched the national network news.
Now, of course, we are on an intravenous feed of information with new impulses, inputs every millisecond.
And of course, the way this is played out on social media has dominated the narrative. And you have a social media ecosystem environment in which context, history, facts get lost, and the emotion, the impact of images dominates. And we can’t discount that.
But I think it also has a very, very, very challenging effect on the narrative.
Romney: You know a small parenthetical point which is some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially Tiktok or other entities of that nature if you look at the postings on Tiktok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites. It’s overwhelmingly so among Tiktok… broadcast… so I’d I’d know that’s of real interest and the president will get the chance to to make action in that regard.
L’entretien complet est ici :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92PzA6eEyM