Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dusty Grind. Government control has always plagued French broadcasting, but under the regime of Charles de Gaulle, censorship has been particularly tight and unyielding. A few hours after the student riots erupted, for example, newscasts on O.R.T.F.'s two TV channels casually observed that the troublemakers had returned to their books and all was safe and snug in the land. Then, as turmoil mounted, TV newsmen prepared a two-hour report on undergraduate unrest, but minutes before it was to be aired, the government suppressed...
Even under normal circumstances, French TV is hardly much livelier than the test pattern. Save for an occasional penetrating documentary or a good movie, programming is a dusty grind of westerns, inane quiz shows, and U.S. imports, such as Les Incorruptibles (The Untouchables) and Mission: Impossible...
...leaders are permitted to appear only fleetingly, and usually in a background still photo while a droning announcer reads their carefully edited words. On his return to France recently, Georges Bidault said at a press conference: "I ask you to vote against the Communists and against the Gaullists." Later, French radio quoted him as saying only: "I ask you to vote against Communism...
What outraged the journalists most was the case of the evening paper Madrid. Its offenses: quoting a French scholar's reference to the disorders at the University of Madrid, where students have repeatedly clashed with police, and printing a remark by the rector of the University of Salamanca blaming student unrest on a "political vacuum." Finally, there was a piece by Editorial Writer Rafael Calvo Serer. Wrongly anticipating the defeat of De Gaulle, he had written: "What remains clear is the incompatibility of a personal and authoritarian government within the structures of the industrial society and with the democratic...
...situation is worse in French-speaking West Africa. In all nine countries (pop. 26 million), there are only two universities, Senegal's University of Dakar, and the Ivory Coast's University of Abidjan, together enrolling fewer than 3,000 students. Though Senegal's economy is almost completely grounded on farming, there is no school of agriculture at the brightly flowered, Dakar campus. In the Congo (Léopoldville), the University of Lovanium proudly displays one of Africa's few nuclear reactors. As a result, it has dozens of black students solving mysteries of nuclear physics, only...