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22/11/2008

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Bourmeau, Sylvain

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

MediaPart - France | 16/03/2008

Jacques Bouveresse considers capitalism a threat to journalism

In an interview conducted by Sylvain Bourmeau, the French philosopher Jacques Bouveresse ponders the future of the independent press. "Can we dream of a press that is truly free and autonomous devoted to the cause of truth and justice, in a world where information has become a mere commercial product submitted like all the others pretty much exclusively to the law of supply and demand and where the reign of the market and the power of money have become so absolute and tyrannical ? How can what makes no economical sense in the eyes of the new realists who now lay down the law not increasingly appear to quite simply be nonsense itself ? To dream of the kind of press that most of us continue to dream of could well be about as unreasonable as dreaming of a capitalism that turns out morally sound ... ."

MediaPart - France | 04/03/2008

According to Russell Banks, Americans are begining to open up to the rest of the world

The American writer Russell Banks, interviewed by Sylvain Bourmeau, analyses the view his compatriots have of the rest of the world. "When I was younger, I never grasped the extent to which America was an imperial power, because I was right in the middle of the Empire. When you're in the middle of the Empire, it is very difficult to understand. You can't see what your own country, your own people, your own culture are doing. But when I left the country and settled in Jamaica during the 1970s, I was able to fully measure how much imperialism had forged the fate of this little country. .. [Americans] are realising how much we are connected, ... . It is slow, but this awareness of the world is developing. It is inevitable, a positive aspect of globalisation, if ever there was one. Americans are being obliged to realise that there is a world beyond its frontiers."

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