As a guest on the CNEWS set, Alain Bauer, professor of criminology, returned to the war of visual communication in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. “The great sacrifice in this matter is the truth,” he said.
An armed war, but also a war of image communication. For Alain Bauer, professor of criminology and guest at CNEWS, the truth is “the great victim of this affair”.
“It has been since COVID and the self-destruction of my own colleagues that have destroyed science. Political truth was gone, journalistic truth was largely undermined, a little scientific truth remained, it was liquidated during COVID. There is no truth anymore. We are always looking for information that confirms what we believe, rather than reality,” said Alain Bauer.
“There is now a need to show the images, even the most horrific ones, to say: ‘You know, this really happened.’ I remind you that the Nuremberg trials began with the concentration shots of the opening film so that everyone would realize what it was “In reality and at the time we did not fake the images,” he later developed.
The war of images, a big topic
“Today there is also the idea that every image is fake, that there are only deep fakes. “It is a real challenge to hand over the images and therefore also to the journalists,” said the criminology professor, referring to the challenges of the technology.
“The tragedy of Israel and the drama of Hamas is that they have prevented independent journalists from doing their work – some by bombing, others by denying access.” There is still a capacity for truth, which you have here and others carry within themselves, namely to say, “This is what’s happening, and we’re talking about it because it’s our job and we’re independent,” concluded the CNEWS Morning guest.