REVUE 2010
RUSSELL WILLIAMS, PERSONNALITÉ MÉDIATIQUE DE L'ANNÉE
23 décembre 2010
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2010/12/23/001-russell-williams-personnalite-annee-2010-sondage.shtml
Russell Williams, ex-colonel des Forces canadiennes condamné à la prison à vie pour le meurtre de deux femmes, est la personnalité ayant le plus marqué l'actualité en 2010, selon un sondage annuel de La Presse canadienne effectué auprès des médias du pays.
Il a été choisi par 29 % des médias qui ont pris part au sondage.
Russell Williams a été condamné en octobre dernier à deux peines concurrentes de prison à vie sans possibilité de libération avant 25 ans pour les meurtres de Jessica Lloyd et de Marie-France Comeau.
CROSBY 2E, HARPER 3E
Il a devancé le joueur de hockey Sidney Crosby, dont le but gagnant aux Jeux olympiques de Vancouver a déclenché une vague d'hystérie à travers le pays, à la mesure de la médaille d'or gagnée du même coup par l'équipe canadienne.
IL A RECUEILLI 15 % DES VOTES.
Le premier ministre Stephen Harper, qui détenait le titre de personnalité de l'année en 2008 et en 2009, est arrivé au troisième rang, avec 9 % des votes, devant Jean Charest (8 %).
Ce dernier a d'ailleurs été le premier ministre provincial le plus souvent nommé dans le sondage, devant l'ex-premier ministre de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Danny Williams (7 %), et celui de la Saskatchewan, Brad Wall (5 %).
DE HÉROS À ZÉRO
Russell Williams avait amorcé l'année 2010 en tant que colonel décoré et officier responsable de la plus grande base militaire au pays, celle de Trenton. C'était une étoile montante en voie d'atteindre les plus hauts rangs de sa profession.
Avant la fin de l'année, il était cependant devenu un paria, un violeur et un meurtrier avoué, désormais emprisonné dans l'une des prisons les plus célèbres du pays.
Son uniforme a même été saisi puis brûlé par les Forces canadiennes, qui veulent effacer toute trace de son passage dans leurs rangs.
La sombre déchéance du militaire, racontée en détail devant la justice, s'est révélée un drame qui a choqué le pays, dominé les manchettes et fait trembler les fondations mêmes des Forces canadiennes.
Radio-Canada.ca avec Presse canadienne
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KILLER RUSSELL WILLIAMS NEWSMAKER OF YEAR
December 23, 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/12/23/williams-newsmaker-123.html
The Canadian Press
Russell Williams began 2010 as a decorated colonel and ended it as a confessed rapist and murderer, expelled from the Canadian Forces.
Russell Williams entered 2010 as a decorated colonel, a rising star in the ranks of the air force who ran Canada's largest military airfield and even ferried the prime minister on VIP flights.
He ended the year as a pariah — a confessed rapist and murderer languishing behind bars in one of the country's most notorious prisons, his uniform seized and burned by a shaken military anxious to erase all traces of him.
The story of Williams's dark and twisted fall from grace — told in court in unrelenting and excruciating detail — shocked the country, dominated headlines and rocked the Canadian Forces to its very foundations.
So massive was his betrayal, the sex killer and disgraced former commander of CFB Trenton has emerged as Canada's Newsmaker of the Year in an annual survey of the nation's newsrooms by The Canadian Press.
Some may recoil at the thought of Williams as 2010's top newsmaker, but it's an "act of news judgment," not an award, said April Lindgren, a veteran reporter who now teaches journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.
"People have to understand, he wasn't selected Newsmaker of the Year because he's a great guy,"
Lindgren said.
"He was selected Newsmaker of the Year because of the magnitude of his evil, and because of the news his deeds generated."
In the long history of The Canadian Press year-end survey, criminals rarely draw many votes from those who produce the country's newspapers, newscasts and news websites.
Despite their notoriety, killers like Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo and Robert Pickton were never selected.
"It is a dark choice, and maybe counterintuitive, but it is hard to deny the impact of the story on Canadians," said Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News.
"It made us all look at the world a little differently. And we reacted to it viscerally and emotionally."
Williams was picked by 29 per cent of the newsrooms in the newsmaker survey. The Canadian with the second highest total — 15 per cent — was hockey superstar Sidney Crosby, whose overtime goal in the gold medal game at the Vancouver Olympics set off a wave of national delirium.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the newsmaker for 2008 and 2009, was next with nine per cent.
And for the first time, The Canadian Press conducted a parallel survey in conjunction with Yahoo! Canada to allow the public to make its own choices for Newsmaker of the Year.
The public results were the inverse of the top two newsroom choices: Yahoo! Canada readers picked Crosby as the top newsmaker with 21 per cent of the votes, with Williams tied for second with pop superstar Justin Bieber, both with 14 per cent. Bieber came in sixth in the newsroom survey.
Still, it was clear from both surveys that for news people and the public alike, the colonel's shocking double life set the story apart from other horrific trials Canadians have been exposed to over recent years.
4 DAYS OF LURID DETAILS
The lurid details of that abuse of privilege were laid bare over four gripping October days in an eastern Ontario courtroom after Williams pleaded guilty to all 88 charges against him.
Few could tune out the sickening details of his depraved crimes, which began with fetish break-ins to steal the underwear of women and girls as young as 11.
It eventually escalated to the brutal sex slayings of 38-year-old Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, who served under his command, and 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd, whose disappearance triggered a police search that eventually led to Williams's capture and confession.
His "rise to infamy" was also fuelled by the vast amount of information that emerged in court, from instantaneous tweets to photos of the high-ranking officer in girls' underwear that were splashed across the front pages from coast to coast, Lindgren said.
"Those two photographs, to me, told the story of Russell Williams's sickness and evilness of his act … in a way that I don't think even stories could convey," she said.
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FROM COLONEL TO SEX KILLER: RUSSELL WILLIAMS CHOSEN NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR
Maria Babbage
December 23, 2010
TORONTO
Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/media/TG1500.html
Russell Williams entered 2010 as a decorated colonel, a rising star in the ranks of the air force who ran Canada's largest military airfield and even ferried the prime minister on VIP flights.
He ended the year as a pariah — a confessed rapist and murderer languishing behind bars in one of the country's most notorious prisons, his uniform seized and burned by a shaken military anxious to erase all traces of him.
The story of Williams's dark and twisted fall from grace — told in court in unrelenting and excruciating detail — shocked the country, dominated headlines and rocked the Canadian Forces to its very foundations.
So massive was his betrayal, the sex killer and disgraced former commander of CFB Trenton has emerged as Canada's Newsmaker of the Year in an annual survey of the nation's newsrooms by The Canadian Press.
Some may recoil at the thought of Williams as 2010's top newsmaker, but it's an "act of news judgment," not an award, said April Lindgren, a veteran reporter who now teaches journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.
"People have to understand, he wasn't selected Newsmaker of the Year because he's a great guy," Lindgren said.
"He was selected Newsmaker of the Year because of the magnitude of his evil, and because of the news his deeds generated."
In the long history of The Canadian Press year-end survey, criminals rarely draw many votes from those who produce the country's newspapers, newscasts and news websites. Despite their notoriety, killers like Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo and Robert Pickton were never selected.
"It is a dark choice, and maybe counterintuitive, but it is hard to deny the impact of the story on Canadians," said Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News.
"It made us all look at the world a little differently. And we reacted to it viscerally and emotionally."
The Williams case was a "glimpse into the horrendous darkness" that exists in humans, said Murray Langdon, news director at radio station CFAX in Victoria.
"The story revealed a stark contrast; a strong, charismatic and dependable leader, and twisted, depraved and sadistic hunter," Langdon wrote.
While there was little argument about the journalistic importance of the story, some voters admitted they couldn't bring themselves to cast a ballot for Williams.
"I just couldn't vote for Russell Williams — it would be like when Time (magazine) declared Hitler 'Man of The Year,'" said Murray Wood, news director of radio stations CJME in Regina and CKOM in Saskatoon.
Wood cast his vote for Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, whose fight over the future of the province's potash industry pushed his Prairie brand of diplomacy onto the national stage.
Williams was picked by 29 per cent of the newsrooms in the Newsmaker survey. The Canadian with the second highest total — 15 per cent — was hockey superstar Sidney Crosby, whose overtime goal in the gold medal game at the Vancouver Olympics set off a wave of national delirium.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Newsmaker for 2008 and 2009, was next with nine per cent.
And for the first time, The Canadian Press conducted a parallel survey in conjunction with Yahoo! Canada to allow the public to make its own choices for Newsmaker of the Year.
The public results were the inverse of the top two newsroom choices: Yahoo! Canada readers picked Crosby as the top newsmaker with 21 per cent of the votes, with Williams tied for second with pop superstar Justin Bieber, both with 14 per cent. Bieber came in sixth in the newsroom survey.
Still, it was clear from both surveys that for news people and the public alike, the colonel's shocking double life set the story apart from other horrific trials Canadians have been exposed to over recent years.
Unmasking a pillar of society as a monstrous sexual predator shatters public trust and "corrodes" the fabric of society, said Elliott Leyton, a social anthropologist and author of "Hunting Humans," a book on serial killers.
"No other serial killer... has mixed with the prime minister and so many dignitaries in society — in fact, was part of that society," Leyton said.
"That's the distinctive thing about him... He had a lot of prestige and power which he abused to the full."
The lurid details of that abuse of privilege were laid bare over four gripping October days in an eastern Ontario courtroom after Williams pleaded guilty to all 88 charges against him.
Few could tune out the sickening details of his depraved crimes, which began with fetish break-ins to steal the underwear of women and girls as young as 11.
It eventually escalated to the brutal sex slayings of 38-year-old Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, who served under his command, and 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd, whose disappearance triggered a police search that eventually led to Williams's capture and confession.
His "rise to infamy" was also fuelled by the vast amount of information that emerged in court, from instantaneous tweets to photos of the high-ranking officer in girls' underwear that were splashed across the front pages from coast to coast, Lindgren said.
Some found it too much to take, but Lindgren argued that the photos — one newspaper juxtaposed an image of a saluting Williams in full uniform with another of him posing in what appeared to be a girl's pink bathing suit — were justified.
"Those two photographs, to me, told the story of Russell Williams's sickness and evilness of his act... in a way that I don't think even stories could convey," she said.
Those images perhaps made the greatest impact in the community where Williams committed his crimes.
For one local news director who watched the horrific case unfold from January until late October, Williams clearly stood out as the newsmaker of the year.
"CFB Trenton is at the centre of everything our military does, and to have its top officer commit these crimes was a shocking reminder that evil can lurk anywhere no matter what the responsibility, income or rank," wrote Todd Smith, news director at Quinte Broadcasting.
The former colonel's crimes had a lasting effect on everyone in the communities of Belleville and Trenton, he added.
"Williams terrorized the local region for several months and committed some of the most heinous acts our country has ever seen while in a position which holds the responsibility of protecting all of us."
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Vote totals to determine The Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year for 2010:
Russell Williams: 29 per cent
Sidney Crosby: 15 per cent
Stephen Harper: 9 per cent
Jean Charest: 8 per cent
Danny Williams: 7 per cent
Justin Bieber, John Furlong: 6 per cent
Joannie Rochette, Brad Wall: 5 per cent
Others who received votes: Bill Vander Zalm; Michaelle Jean; Omar Khadr; Rob Ford; Johanna Skibsrud; Brother Andre.
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Quotes from voters who chose sex killer Russell Williams as Canada's top newsmaker for 2010 in the annual poll of news organizations by The Canadian Press:
"This story shocked and horrified anyone who read it and also raised the whole issue in the media of how much news is too much when it comes to graphic or disturbing content or photographs." - Craig Albrecht, co-managing editor, Lethbridge Herald.
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"The Russell Williams case stunned the country and had a lasting effect on all residents in the Quinte Region. It has also shaken the military, which plays a vital role in our local area, the country and around the world. CFB Trenton is at the centre of everything our military does and to have its top officer commit these crimes was a shocking reminder that evil can lurk anywhere no matter what the responsibility, income or rank." Todd Smith, news director, Quinte Broadcasting CJBQ, CIGL, CJTN, Belleville and Trenton, Ont.
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"It is a dark choice, and maybe counter-intuitive, but it is hard to deny the impact of the story on Canadians. Certainly our audiences were drawn to it. There were the crimes, heinous as they were. But I think his dark character and the duality of the trusted military leader, a protector, being a predator was part of the strange curiosity of it. It raised questions about the military and its screening processes. It made us all look at the world a little differently. And we reacted to it viscerally and emotionally. It also had an interesting impact on the media. With the unprecedented access given to the court materials, you also saw the media debate its role - to censor or not - in the context of this story. That is why we chose Williams. At the end of the day, it is a story that will be remembered for a very long time." Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief, CBC News.
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"I chose Williams because I was fascinated by the unexpected nature of his notoriety. You expect athletes to win medals and games and you expect politicians to make popular or unpopular comments or decisions. But I don't think anyone could have anticipated that a ranking Canadian military officer would be responsible for such crimes or lead such a secret, demented second life. The story got more intriguing, albeit disturbing, as details of his arrest and subsequent court appearances emerged. For me it culminated with the tape of the police interview, which seemed like something out of a TV cop drama." Andrew MacDonald, senior news editor, Yahoo! Canada.
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"The Russell Williams case was one of a surreal nature; a punishing blow for the image of Canada's Armed Forces, but a glimpse into the horrendous darkness that exists in humans. The case is one that had a pronounced impact on not only the surrounding community, but the country as a whole. The story revealed a stark contrast: a strong, charismatic and dependable leader and twisted, depraved and sadistic hunter." Murray Langdon, news director, CFAX radio, Victoria.
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"These sex crimes that included two murders were horrific and unimaginable, and done by a high-ranking Canadian air force colonel who is now disgraced and has been officially stripped of his rank. From the time of Russell Williams's arrest to him becoming the first officer in Canadian military history to have his commission revoked by the Governor General, the story was front-page news. Nothing else came close." Philip Croucher, managing editor, Metro Halifax
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"What stood out about the Williams story were the brutality of the crimes and the near mythical arc of the story. Williams wasn't just respected, he was among the most respected of an institution that Canadians are in the habit of thinking of as above reproach. That this man could have sank to these depths of depravity - and that the military, whose purpose it is to sniff out enemies, didn't uncover him - increased both the horror and the fascination of the case. But even the worst stories need a hero and this one had Jim Smythe, the police official who took Williams from a confident executive to a confessed killer in one long police interview." Jim Poling, managing editor, Hamilton Spectator.
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"Canadians were stunned by the details surrounding the double life of this soldier … By day, he was a star in the Forces and a leader in his community. By night, he was a compulsive sexual sadist and a serial killer. The revelations that emerged were beyond comprehension. How was he able to fool his entourage for so many years? We haven't finished talking about this case." Maurice Cloutier, managing editor, Sherbrooke La Tribune
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"Even though it was disgusting, Canadians couldn't put it down." Doug Farraway, sports director, FAN590 radio, Toronto.
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A list of Canada's Newsmaker of the Year, as determined in the annual poll of newsrooms across the country by The Canadian Press:
2010: Russell Williams, sex killer
2009: Stephen Harper, politician
2008: Stephen Harper, politician
2007: The Mounties
2006: The Canadian Soldier
2005: John Gomery, Quebec judge
2004: Paul Martin, politician
2003: Paul Martin, politician
2002: Jean Chretien, politician
2001: Stockwell Day, politician
2000: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1999: Pierre Trudeau, politician (named Canadian Newsmaker of the 20th Century)
1998: Jean Chretien, politician
1997: Sheldon Kennedy, hockey player
1996: Donovan Bailey, sprinter
1995: Lucien Bouchard, politician
1994: Jacques Parizeau, politician
1993: Kim Campbell, politician
1992: The Constitution
1991: Brian Mulroney, politician
1990: Elijah Harper, politician
1989: Michael Wilson, politician
1988: Ben Johnson, sprinter
1987: Rick Hansen, cross-country wheelchair athlete
1986: Rick Hansen, cross-country wheelchair athlete
1985: Steve Fonyo, cross-country runner
1984: Brian Mulroney, politician
1983: Brian Mulroney, politician
1982: Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
1981: Terry Fox, cross-country runner
1980: Terry Fox, cross-country runner
1979: Joe Clark, politician
1978: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1977: Rene Levesque, politician
1976: Rene Levesque, politician
1975: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1974: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1973: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1972: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1971: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1970: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1969: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1968: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1967: Lester Pearson, politician
1966: John Diefenbaker, politician
1965: Lucien Rivard, drug smuggler
1964: Lester Pearson, politician
1963: Lester Pearson, politician
1962: Real Caouette, politician
1961: James Coyne, Bank of Canada governor
1960: John Diefenbaker, politician
1959: John Diefenbaker, Joey Smallwood, politicians
1958: John Diefenbaker, politician
1957: John Diefenbaker, politician
1956: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1955: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1954: Marilyn Bell, marathon swimmer
1953: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1952: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1951: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1950: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1949: Louis St. Laurent, politician
1948: Mackenzie King, politician
1947: Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater
1946: Igor Gouzenko, Soviet embassy cipher clerk
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COMMENTAIRES
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Quelle triste liste de personnalités marquantes: un meurtrier, un sportif et 3 politiciens. A la place de La Presse canadienne, je me serais abstenu d'en publier les résultats.
cbc.ca/change publie la liste beaucoup plus inspirante des 10 bénévoles de l'année. Le public est même invité à participer au choix. Ça, ça vaut la peine d'en parler.
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Personnalite mon oeil.Les dirigeants des medias nous balancent ce qu'ils veulent.
Les lecteurs du Time avait choisi Assange mais une autre personne a ete choisi par la direction. [Ce fut le fondateur de Facebook.]
De la mise en scene tout ca.
[L'information est économique et politique. On dit que la presse est le cinquième pouvoir, c'est plutôt la cinquière roue du carosse de l'État qui sert à le féliciter, le soutenir et à faire avaler ou rende rendre plus digérable ses décisions. Se souvenir du rôle du Times, du Washington Post et du New York Times dans la guerre d'Irak. Ne pas penser que seuls les hystériques de Foxnews jouent un rôle.]
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(...)
on ne devrait pas pouvoir nommer un meurtrier comme personnalité de quoi que ce soit.
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Le bandit sont les héros des médias...
J'ai créé mon théâtre contre la violence en 1998, j'ai travaillé six ans avec les jeuens de la rue par le biais de mon théâtre et 70% des groupes de jeunes ont quitté la rue et je devais, chaque année, quêter le fric pour y arriver...
Avez-vous entendu parler de mon Théâtre et des jeunes qui furent heureux de quitter la rue ! Je ne serai jamais la personnalité de l'année, je suis bien trop honnête !
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Russell Williams ne mérite pas d'attention et n'en a pas vraiment ici au Québec si ce n'est pour nous montrer ce qu'un esprit humain pris par ses propres convictions peut être amené à faire, peut être amené à commettre comme crime en s'estimant libre, se justifiant lui-même et passant aux actes, à condition bien sûr de ne pas s'y faire prendre.
Y a-t-il quelque chose là de révélateur concernant notre civilisation actuelle basée sur le concept de consommation de tout ce qui existe, même les autres, aux fins de ses propres loisirs.
N'est-ce pas le même genre d’esprit qui a amené Research In Motion (RIM) a s'accaparer le travail de d'autres pour finalement régler hors cour en payant environ 350 millions de dollars US ? [Blackberry]
Je le pense. N'est-ce pas aussi le même genre d'esprit qui prévaut chez ceux refusant de regarder en face la réalité des changements climatiques ? Je le pense aussi.
La réalité basée sur les connaissances doit primée dans notre ère moderne sinon, d'autres crimes très graves et ceux-là sans Justice pratiquement applicable, seront commis.
N’oublions donc pas ce qu'un esprit humain pris par ses propres convictions peut être amené à faire !!
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Les vrais personnalités de l'année ne sont pas celles que les média nous ont dévoilé. Ce sont, comme Steven l'a mentionné plus tôt dans ce forum, les personnes qui travaillent bénévolement pour venir en aide à ceux et celles qui sont dans le besoin, soit dans leur entourage ou partout dans le monde.
Ce sont aussi les gens qui travaillent fort toute l'année pour subvenir honnêtement à leurs besoins et à ceux de leur famille, et dont les impôts servent à financer les programmes aident ceux et celles de notre société qui souffrent et qui ont besoin d'aide. [Et à acheter pour des milliards d'armes! Pour tuer d'autres pauves!]
Je crois que c'est une honte de vouloir hisser au palmarès des personnalités de l'année des gens comme cet ancien colonel que je ne nommerai même pas pour ne pas lui faire de publicité supplémentaire.
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Pour établir cette liste, on prend les personnes qui ont défrayé la manchette le plus souvent.
Bien entendu, les mauvaises nouvelles, les crimes, les fraudes, etc. attirent plus l'attention que les actions moins spectaculaires.
Ce qui revient à dire que notre société valorise plus le sensationnaliste que la vraie valeur des gens ou des actions.
Je ne dis pas que c'est une bonne chose, il faudrait peut-être changer cette liste pour en faire une qui comprendrait les noms des personnes qui ont le plus contribué à l'avancement de la société, au progrès, à l'amélioration.
(...) la première place à ce militaire est un vrai affront à la famille des victimes. Dans tous les nommés, il n'y a pas grand-chose de positif à part Sidney Crosby.
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On devrait décerner le premier prix de la morbidité aux medias qui ont élu le colonel assassin et à ceux qui lui décernent le prix.
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Je savais pas que Russell William était un humain, et vous?
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Misere,,, quelle choix que cé ca.....Russell Williams est un animal par une personalitée.
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La personnalité médiatique du siècle dernier est attribué à Adolf Hitler qui est responsable «direct» du massacre de plus de 5 millions de personnes en plus des quelques 55 millions de la 2e Guerre. Gandhi arrive (malheureusement) à la 66e place derrière Céline Dion.
[Monsieur Hitler, fut l'homme de l'année 1938 du Times US. Et il a laissé un souvenir inoubliable à bien des gens. Les grands de ce monde sont ainsi. Ce sont eux qui font l'Histoire et on aime parler de leurs légendes, leur ériger des statues et admirer leur création. Il va de soi qu'on préfère ses grands hommes à ceux des autres. Mais aucun pays ne s'est fait sans eux. Ils sont les maîtres de la cartographie. Et c'est la participation anonyme de millions de gens de bonne volonté qui les fait ainsi et leur donne tout ce pouvoir. Il y aurait une étude à faire sur la docilité innée de la masse (et du peuple si on aime ce mot plus joli que «foule») programmable à merci. Et si on parle un peu de monsieur Staline qui a tué bien plus de gens que lui, on ne parle jamais des autres ogres, monsieur churchill et Roosevelt et Truman, sauf pour en dire du bien. Pour en revenir à monsieur Hitler, il est une création de la première guerre mondiale provoquée par l'empire Britannique. Après tout, on eut sans doute aimé qu'il reste poète et pacifiste. Et monsieur Staline moinillon. Gandhi, tout pacifiste qu'il soit à partir du moment où il mettait en branle l'indépendance de son pays est le responsable direct de son explosion, de la création du Paskistan et du Bangladesh et des millions de morts qui ont suivi. Sans compter les «déplacés». Comme quoi les meilleures intentions dans le monde réel ne donnent pas nécessairement les meilleurs résultats. Et Jésus, personnalité médiatique de notre civilisation, avec ses 12 amis, a provoqué la création de l'Église Catho et des millions de morts qui ont suivi. ]
[Que dire de monsieur Bush père et fils, Blair, Harper et de la quantité de morts provoquées par leur intervention.]
[Si on parle de monsieur Harper et des meurtres commis en son nom, n'oublions pas que monsieur Williams est un soldat canadien. Soldat, c'est à dire, tueur professionnel. Il y aurait beaucoup à dire au sujet de la naïveté des gens qui croient que l'on peut entraîner quelqu'un dans ce domaine bien particulier de la boucherie sans qu'il en reste des séquelles. Du moins sur certains individus. On les envoie faire ce pour quoi ils ont été formés et on veut rien savoir de leurs activités. Et, à leur retour, on veut encore moins qu'ils en parlent. Le dossier est clos. Que l'aventure guerrière se soit bien ou mal terminé (logiquement: si ça se passe bien, ce sera le contraire pour eux, les autres, là-bas.) Il n'a fait que ce pourquoi il était entraîné. Ce qui est intéressant, c'est qu'il s'en soit pris à des femmes, il faudrait étudier la carrière de l'individu, ce qu'on évitera évidemment de faire. Le sens commun dirait que c'est un fou et qu'il est bon pour l'asile mais comme on ne mêt presque plus personne dans ces immenses institutions vides jadis remplis de milliers de «malades». Il allait donc de soi que les psychiâtres proclameraient toute sa raison, ce qui lui vaut l'emprisonnement avec des criminels professionnels maladroits.]
[Et pour le médias dont le rôle principal est de vendre des annonces, c'est un spectacle de plus dans la catégorie chiens écrasés ou écrapou. $ $ $ $. Ce dont les lecteurs, auditeurs, télespectateurs raffolent sinon ils réclameraient les nouvelles les plus urgences au sujet de l'orchestres symphonique de Montréal. Contrairement à ce que les naïfs imaginent, les médias connaissent très bien leur public. Et ce dont ils ont envie sans même oser se l'avouer. Comme le producteur de porno connaît ses money shot. ]
Vous voyez bien que ce concours ne tient pas la route ou du moins pour moi qui est dans la moyenne de l'intelligence. Mais je dois être un con comme des millions de personnes au Canada.
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RUSSELL WILLIAMS, PERSONNALITÉ MÉDIATIQUE DE L'ANNÉE
23 décembre 2010
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2010/12/23/001-russell-williams-personnalite-annee-2010-sondage.shtml
Russell Williams, ex-colonel des Forces canadiennes condamné à la prison à vie pour le meurtre de deux femmes, est la personnalité ayant le plus marqué l'actualité en 2010, selon un sondage annuel de La Presse canadienne effectué auprès des médias du pays.
Il a été choisi par 29 % des médias qui ont pris part au sondage.
Russell Williams a été condamné en octobre dernier à deux peines concurrentes de prison à vie sans possibilité de libération avant 25 ans pour les meurtres de Jessica Lloyd et de Marie-France Comeau.
CROSBY 2E, HARPER 3E
Il a devancé le joueur de hockey Sidney Crosby, dont le but gagnant aux Jeux olympiques de Vancouver a déclenché une vague d'hystérie à travers le pays, à la mesure de la médaille d'or gagnée du même coup par l'équipe canadienne.
IL A RECUEILLI 15 % DES VOTES.
Le premier ministre Stephen Harper, qui détenait le titre de personnalité de l'année en 2008 et en 2009, est arrivé au troisième rang, avec 9 % des votes, devant Jean Charest (8 %).
Ce dernier a d'ailleurs été le premier ministre provincial le plus souvent nommé dans le sondage, devant l'ex-premier ministre de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Danny Williams (7 %), et celui de la Saskatchewan, Brad Wall (5 %).
DE HÉROS À ZÉRO
Russell Williams avait amorcé l'année 2010 en tant que colonel décoré et officier responsable de la plus grande base militaire au pays, celle de Trenton. C'était une étoile montante en voie d'atteindre les plus hauts rangs de sa profession.
Avant la fin de l'année, il était cependant devenu un paria, un violeur et un meurtrier avoué, désormais emprisonné dans l'une des prisons les plus célèbres du pays.
Son uniforme a même été saisi puis brûlé par les Forces canadiennes, qui veulent effacer toute trace de son passage dans leurs rangs.
La sombre déchéance du militaire, racontée en détail devant la justice, s'est révélée un drame qui a choqué le pays, dominé les manchettes et fait trembler les fondations mêmes des Forces canadiennes.
Radio-Canada.ca avec Presse canadienne
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KILLER RUSSELL WILLIAMS NEWSMAKER OF YEAR
December 23, 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/12/23/williams-newsmaker-123.html
The Canadian Press
Russell Williams began 2010 as a decorated colonel and ended it as a confessed rapist and murderer, expelled from the Canadian Forces.
Russell Williams entered 2010 as a decorated colonel, a rising star in the ranks of the air force who ran Canada's largest military airfield and even ferried the prime minister on VIP flights.
He ended the year as a pariah — a confessed rapist and murderer languishing behind bars in one of the country's most notorious prisons, his uniform seized and burned by a shaken military anxious to erase all traces of him.
The story of Williams's dark and twisted fall from grace — told in court in unrelenting and excruciating detail — shocked the country, dominated headlines and rocked the Canadian Forces to its very foundations.
So massive was his betrayal, the sex killer and disgraced former commander of CFB Trenton has emerged as Canada's Newsmaker of the Year in an annual survey of the nation's newsrooms by The Canadian Press.
Some may recoil at the thought of Williams as 2010's top newsmaker, but it's an "act of news judgment," not an award, said April Lindgren, a veteran reporter who now teaches journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.
"People have to understand, he wasn't selected Newsmaker of the Year because he's a great guy,"
Lindgren said.
"He was selected Newsmaker of the Year because of the magnitude of his evil, and because of the news his deeds generated."
In the long history of The Canadian Press year-end survey, criminals rarely draw many votes from those who produce the country's newspapers, newscasts and news websites.
Despite their notoriety, killers like Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo and Robert Pickton were never selected.
"It is a dark choice, and maybe counterintuitive, but it is hard to deny the impact of the story on Canadians," said Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News.
"It made us all look at the world a little differently. And we reacted to it viscerally and emotionally."
Williams was picked by 29 per cent of the newsrooms in the newsmaker survey. The Canadian with the second highest total — 15 per cent — was hockey superstar Sidney Crosby, whose overtime goal in the gold medal game at the Vancouver Olympics set off a wave of national delirium.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the newsmaker for 2008 and 2009, was next with nine per cent.
And for the first time, The Canadian Press conducted a parallel survey in conjunction with Yahoo! Canada to allow the public to make its own choices for Newsmaker of the Year.
The public results were the inverse of the top two newsroom choices: Yahoo! Canada readers picked Crosby as the top newsmaker with 21 per cent of the votes, with Williams tied for second with pop superstar Justin Bieber, both with 14 per cent. Bieber came in sixth in the newsroom survey.
Still, it was clear from both surveys that for news people and the public alike, the colonel's shocking double life set the story apart from other horrific trials Canadians have been exposed to over recent years.
4 DAYS OF LURID DETAILS
The lurid details of that abuse of privilege were laid bare over four gripping October days in an eastern Ontario courtroom after Williams pleaded guilty to all 88 charges against him.
Few could tune out the sickening details of his depraved crimes, which began with fetish break-ins to steal the underwear of women and girls as young as 11.
It eventually escalated to the brutal sex slayings of 38-year-old Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, who served under his command, and 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd, whose disappearance triggered a police search that eventually led to Williams's capture and confession.
His "rise to infamy" was also fuelled by the vast amount of information that emerged in court, from instantaneous tweets to photos of the high-ranking officer in girls' underwear that were splashed across the front pages from coast to coast, Lindgren said.
"Those two photographs, to me, told the story of Russell Williams's sickness and evilness of his act … in a way that I don't think even stories could convey," she said.
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FROM COLONEL TO SEX KILLER: RUSSELL WILLIAMS CHOSEN NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR
Maria Babbage
December 23, 2010
TORONTO
Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/media/TG1500.html
Russell Williams entered 2010 as a decorated colonel, a rising star in the ranks of the air force who ran Canada's largest military airfield and even ferried the prime minister on VIP flights.
He ended the year as a pariah — a confessed rapist and murderer languishing behind bars in one of the country's most notorious prisons, his uniform seized and burned by a shaken military anxious to erase all traces of him.
The story of Williams's dark and twisted fall from grace — told in court in unrelenting and excruciating detail — shocked the country, dominated headlines and rocked the Canadian Forces to its very foundations.
So massive was his betrayal, the sex killer and disgraced former commander of CFB Trenton has emerged as Canada's Newsmaker of the Year in an annual survey of the nation's newsrooms by The Canadian Press.
Some may recoil at the thought of Williams as 2010's top newsmaker, but it's an "act of news judgment," not an award, said April Lindgren, a veteran reporter who now teaches journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.
"People have to understand, he wasn't selected Newsmaker of the Year because he's a great guy," Lindgren said.
"He was selected Newsmaker of the Year because of the magnitude of his evil, and because of the news his deeds generated."
In the long history of The Canadian Press year-end survey, criminals rarely draw many votes from those who produce the country's newspapers, newscasts and news websites. Despite their notoriety, killers like Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo and Robert Pickton were never selected.
"It is a dark choice, and maybe counterintuitive, but it is hard to deny the impact of the story on Canadians," said Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News.
"It made us all look at the world a little differently. And we reacted to it viscerally and emotionally."
The Williams case was a "glimpse into the horrendous darkness" that exists in humans, said Murray Langdon, news director at radio station CFAX in Victoria.
"The story revealed a stark contrast; a strong, charismatic and dependable leader, and twisted, depraved and sadistic hunter," Langdon wrote.
While there was little argument about the journalistic importance of the story, some voters admitted they couldn't bring themselves to cast a ballot for Williams.
"I just couldn't vote for Russell Williams — it would be like when Time (magazine) declared Hitler 'Man of The Year,'" said Murray Wood, news director of radio stations CJME in Regina and CKOM in Saskatoon.
Wood cast his vote for Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, whose fight over the future of the province's potash industry pushed his Prairie brand of diplomacy onto the national stage.
Williams was picked by 29 per cent of the newsrooms in the Newsmaker survey. The Canadian with the second highest total — 15 per cent — was hockey superstar Sidney Crosby, whose overtime goal in the gold medal game at the Vancouver Olympics set off a wave of national delirium.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Newsmaker for 2008 and 2009, was next with nine per cent.
And for the first time, The Canadian Press conducted a parallel survey in conjunction with Yahoo! Canada to allow the public to make its own choices for Newsmaker of the Year.
The public results were the inverse of the top two newsroom choices: Yahoo! Canada readers picked Crosby as the top newsmaker with 21 per cent of the votes, with Williams tied for second with pop superstar Justin Bieber, both with 14 per cent. Bieber came in sixth in the newsroom survey.
Still, it was clear from both surveys that for news people and the public alike, the colonel's shocking double life set the story apart from other horrific trials Canadians have been exposed to over recent years.
Unmasking a pillar of society as a monstrous sexual predator shatters public trust and "corrodes" the fabric of society, said Elliott Leyton, a social anthropologist and author of "Hunting Humans," a book on serial killers.
"No other serial killer... has mixed with the prime minister and so many dignitaries in society — in fact, was part of that society," Leyton said.
"That's the distinctive thing about him... He had a lot of prestige and power which he abused to the full."
The lurid details of that abuse of privilege were laid bare over four gripping October days in an eastern Ontario courtroom after Williams pleaded guilty to all 88 charges against him.
Few could tune out the sickening details of his depraved crimes, which began with fetish break-ins to steal the underwear of women and girls as young as 11.
It eventually escalated to the brutal sex slayings of 38-year-old Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, who served under his command, and 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd, whose disappearance triggered a police search that eventually led to Williams's capture and confession.
His "rise to infamy" was also fuelled by the vast amount of information that emerged in court, from instantaneous tweets to photos of the high-ranking officer in girls' underwear that were splashed across the front pages from coast to coast, Lindgren said.
Some found it too much to take, but Lindgren argued that the photos — one newspaper juxtaposed an image of a saluting Williams in full uniform with another of him posing in what appeared to be a girl's pink bathing suit — were justified.
"Those two photographs, to me, told the story of Russell Williams's sickness and evilness of his act... in a way that I don't think even stories could convey," she said.
Those images perhaps made the greatest impact in the community where Williams committed his crimes.
For one local news director who watched the horrific case unfold from January until late October, Williams clearly stood out as the newsmaker of the year.
"CFB Trenton is at the centre of everything our military does, and to have its top officer commit these crimes was a shocking reminder that evil can lurk anywhere no matter what the responsibility, income or rank," wrote Todd Smith, news director at Quinte Broadcasting.
The former colonel's crimes had a lasting effect on everyone in the communities of Belleville and Trenton, he added.
"Williams terrorized the local region for several months and committed some of the most heinous acts our country has ever seen while in a position which holds the responsibility of protecting all of us."
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Vote totals to determine The Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year for 2010:
Russell Williams: 29 per cent
Sidney Crosby: 15 per cent
Stephen Harper: 9 per cent
Jean Charest: 8 per cent
Danny Williams: 7 per cent
Justin Bieber, John Furlong: 6 per cent
Joannie Rochette, Brad Wall: 5 per cent
Others who received votes: Bill Vander Zalm; Michaelle Jean; Omar Khadr; Rob Ford; Johanna Skibsrud; Brother Andre.
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Quotes from voters who chose sex killer Russell Williams as Canada's top newsmaker for 2010 in the annual poll of news organizations by The Canadian Press:
"This story shocked and horrified anyone who read it and also raised the whole issue in the media of how much news is too much when it comes to graphic or disturbing content or photographs." - Craig Albrecht, co-managing editor, Lethbridge Herald.
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"The Russell Williams case stunned the country and had a lasting effect on all residents in the Quinte Region. It has also shaken the military, which plays a vital role in our local area, the country and around the world. CFB Trenton is at the centre of everything our military does and to have its top officer commit these crimes was a shocking reminder that evil can lurk anywhere no matter what the responsibility, income or rank." Todd Smith, news director, Quinte Broadcasting CJBQ, CIGL, CJTN, Belleville and Trenton, Ont.
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"It is a dark choice, and maybe counter-intuitive, but it is hard to deny the impact of the story on Canadians. Certainly our audiences were drawn to it. There were the crimes, heinous as they were. But I think his dark character and the duality of the trusted military leader, a protector, being a predator was part of the strange curiosity of it. It raised questions about the military and its screening processes. It made us all look at the world a little differently. And we reacted to it viscerally and emotionally. It also had an interesting impact on the media. With the unprecedented access given to the court materials, you also saw the media debate its role - to censor or not - in the context of this story. That is why we chose Williams. At the end of the day, it is a story that will be remembered for a very long time." Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief, CBC News.
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"I chose Williams because I was fascinated by the unexpected nature of his notoriety. You expect athletes to win medals and games and you expect politicians to make popular or unpopular comments or decisions. But I don't think anyone could have anticipated that a ranking Canadian military officer would be responsible for such crimes or lead such a secret, demented second life. The story got more intriguing, albeit disturbing, as details of his arrest and subsequent court appearances emerged. For me it culminated with the tape of the police interview, which seemed like something out of a TV cop drama." Andrew MacDonald, senior news editor, Yahoo! Canada.
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"The Russell Williams case was one of a surreal nature; a punishing blow for the image of Canada's Armed Forces, but a glimpse into the horrendous darkness that exists in humans. The case is one that had a pronounced impact on not only the surrounding community, but the country as a whole. The story revealed a stark contrast: a strong, charismatic and dependable leader and twisted, depraved and sadistic hunter." Murray Langdon, news director, CFAX radio, Victoria.
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"These sex crimes that included two murders were horrific and unimaginable, and done by a high-ranking Canadian air force colonel who is now disgraced and has been officially stripped of his rank. From the time of Russell Williams's arrest to him becoming the first officer in Canadian military history to have his commission revoked by the Governor General, the story was front-page news. Nothing else came close." Philip Croucher, managing editor, Metro Halifax
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"What stood out about the Williams story were the brutality of the crimes and the near mythical arc of the story. Williams wasn't just respected, he was among the most respected of an institution that Canadians are in the habit of thinking of as above reproach. That this man could have sank to these depths of depravity - and that the military, whose purpose it is to sniff out enemies, didn't uncover him - increased both the horror and the fascination of the case. But even the worst stories need a hero and this one had Jim Smythe, the police official who took Williams from a confident executive to a confessed killer in one long police interview." Jim Poling, managing editor, Hamilton Spectator.
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"Canadians were stunned by the details surrounding the double life of this soldier … By day, he was a star in the Forces and a leader in his community. By night, he was a compulsive sexual sadist and a serial killer. The revelations that emerged were beyond comprehension. How was he able to fool his entourage for so many years? We haven't finished talking about this case." Maurice Cloutier, managing editor, Sherbrooke La Tribune
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"Even though it was disgusting, Canadians couldn't put it down." Doug Farraway, sports director, FAN590 radio, Toronto.
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A list of Canada's Newsmaker of the Year, as determined in the annual poll of newsrooms across the country by The Canadian Press:
2010: Russell Williams, sex killer
2009: Stephen Harper, politician
2008: Stephen Harper, politician
2007: The Mounties
2006: The Canadian Soldier
2005: John Gomery, Quebec judge
2004: Paul Martin, politician
2003: Paul Martin, politician
2002: Jean Chretien, politician
2001: Stockwell Day, politician
2000: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1999: Pierre Trudeau, politician (named Canadian Newsmaker of the 20th Century)
1998: Jean Chretien, politician
1997: Sheldon Kennedy, hockey player
1996: Donovan Bailey, sprinter
1995: Lucien Bouchard, politician
1994: Jacques Parizeau, politician
1993: Kim Campbell, politician
1992: The Constitution
1991: Brian Mulroney, politician
1990: Elijah Harper, politician
1989: Michael Wilson, politician
1988: Ben Johnson, sprinter
1987: Rick Hansen, cross-country wheelchair athlete
1986: Rick Hansen, cross-country wheelchair athlete
1985: Steve Fonyo, cross-country runner
1984: Brian Mulroney, politician
1983: Brian Mulroney, politician
1982: Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
1981: Terry Fox, cross-country runner
1980: Terry Fox, cross-country runner
1979: Joe Clark, politician
1978: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1977: Rene Levesque, politician
1976: Rene Levesque, politician
1975: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1974: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1973: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1972: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1971: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1970: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1969: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1968: Pierre Trudeau, politician
1967: Lester Pearson, politician
1966: John Diefenbaker, politician
1965: Lucien Rivard, drug smuggler
1964: Lester Pearson, politician
1963: Lester Pearson, politician
1962: Real Caouette, politician
1961: James Coyne, Bank of Canada governor
1960: John Diefenbaker, politician
1959: John Diefenbaker, Joey Smallwood, politicians
1958: John Diefenbaker, politician
1957: John Diefenbaker, politician
1956: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1955: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1954: Marilyn Bell, marathon swimmer
1953: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1952: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1951: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1950: Lester Pearson, diplomat
1949: Louis St. Laurent, politician
1948: Mackenzie King, politician
1947: Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater
1946: Igor Gouzenko, Soviet embassy cipher clerk
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COMMENTAIRES
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Quelle triste liste de personnalités marquantes: un meurtrier, un sportif et 3 politiciens. A la place de La Presse canadienne, je me serais abstenu d'en publier les résultats.
cbc.ca/change publie la liste beaucoup plus inspirante des 10 bénévoles de l'année. Le public est même invité à participer au choix. Ça, ça vaut la peine d'en parler.
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Personnalite mon oeil.Les dirigeants des medias nous balancent ce qu'ils veulent.
Les lecteurs du Time avait choisi Assange mais une autre personne a ete choisi par la direction. [Ce fut le fondateur de Facebook.]
De la mise en scene tout ca.
[L'information est économique et politique. On dit que la presse est le cinquième pouvoir, c'est plutôt la cinquière roue du carosse de l'État qui sert à le féliciter, le soutenir et à faire avaler ou rende rendre plus digérable ses décisions. Se souvenir du rôle du Times, du Washington Post et du New York Times dans la guerre d'Irak. Ne pas penser que seuls les hystériques de Foxnews jouent un rôle.]
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(...)
on ne devrait pas pouvoir nommer un meurtrier comme personnalité de quoi que ce soit.
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Le bandit sont les héros des médias...
J'ai créé mon théâtre contre la violence en 1998, j'ai travaillé six ans avec les jeuens de la rue par le biais de mon théâtre et 70% des groupes de jeunes ont quitté la rue et je devais, chaque année, quêter le fric pour y arriver...
Avez-vous entendu parler de mon Théâtre et des jeunes qui furent heureux de quitter la rue ! Je ne serai jamais la personnalité de l'année, je suis bien trop honnête !
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Russell Williams ne mérite pas d'attention et n'en a pas vraiment ici au Québec si ce n'est pour nous montrer ce qu'un esprit humain pris par ses propres convictions peut être amené à faire, peut être amené à commettre comme crime en s'estimant libre, se justifiant lui-même et passant aux actes, à condition bien sûr de ne pas s'y faire prendre.
Y a-t-il quelque chose là de révélateur concernant notre civilisation actuelle basée sur le concept de consommation de tout ce qui existe, même les autres, aux fins de ses propres loisirs.
N'est-ce pas le même genre d’esprit qui a amené Research In Motion (RIM) a s'accaparer le travail de d'autres pour finalement régler hors cour en payant environ 350 millions de dollars US ? [Blackberry]
Je le pense. N'est-ce pas aussi le même genre d'esprit qui prévaut chez ceux refusant de regarder en face la réalité des changements climatiques ? Je le pense aussi.
La réalité basée sur les connaissances doit primée dans notre ère moderne sinon, d'autres crimes très graves et ceux-là sans Justice pratiquement applicable, seront commis.
N’oublions donc pas ce qu'un esprit humain pris par ses propres convictions peut être amené à faire !!
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Les vrais personnalités de l'année ne sont pas celles que les média nous ont dévoilé. Ce sont, comme Steven l'a mentionné plus tôt dans ce forum, les personnes qui travaillent bénévolement pour venir en aide à ceux et celles qui sont dans le besoin, soit dans leur entourage ou partout dans le monde.
Ce sont aussi les gens qui travaillent fort toute l'année pour subvenir honnêtement à leurs besoins et à ceux de leur famille, et dont les impôts servent à financer les programmes aident ceux et celles de notre société qui souffrent et qui ont besoin d'aide. [Et à acheter pour des milliards d'armes! Pour tuer d'autres pauves!]
Je crois que c'est une honte de vouloir hisser au palmarès des personnalités de l'année des gens comme cet ancien colonel que je ne nommerai même pas pour ne pas lui faire de publicité supplémentaire.
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Pour établir cette liste, on prend les personnes qui ont défrayé la manchette le plus souvent.
Bien entendu, les mauvaises nouvelles, les crimes, les fraudes, etc. attirent plus l'attention que les actions moins spectaculaires.
Ce qui revient à dire que notre société valorise plus le sensationnaliste que la vraie valeur des gens ou des actions.
Je ne dis pas que c'est une bonne chose, il faudrait peut-être changer cette liste pour en faire une qui comprendrait les noms des personnes qui ont le plus contribué à l'avancement de la société, au progrès, à l'amélioration.
(...) la première place à ce militaire est un vrai affront à la famille des victimes. Dans tous les nommés, il n'y a pas grand-chose de positif à part Sidney Crosby.
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On devrait décerner le premier prix de la morbidité aux medias qui ont élu le colonel assassin et à ceux qui lui décernent le prix.
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Je savais pas que Russell William était un humain, et vous?
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Misere,,, quelle choix que cé ca.....Russell Williams est un animal par une personalitée.
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La personnalité médiatique du siècle dernier est attribué à Adolf Hitler qui est responsable «direct» du massacre de plus de 5 millions de personnes en plus des quelques 55 millions de la 2e Guerre. Gandhi arrive (malheureusement) à la 66e place derrière Céline Dion.
[Monsieur Hitler, fut l'homme de l'année 1938 du Times US. Et il a laissé un souvenir inoubliable à bien des gens. Les grands de ce monde sont ainsi. Ce sont eux qui font l'Histoire et on aime parler de leurs légendes, leur ériger des statues et admirer leur création. Il va de soi qu'on préfère ses grands hommes à ceux des autres. Mais aucun pays ne s'est fait sans eux. Ils sont les maîtres de la cartographie. Et c'est la participation anonyme de millions de gens de bonne volonté qui les fait ainsi et leur donne tout ce pouvoir. Il y aurait une étude à faire sur la docilité innée de la masse (et du peuple si on aime ce mot plus joli que «foule») programmable à merci. Et si on parle un peu de monsieur Staline qui a tué bien plus de gens que lui, on ne parle jamais des autres ogres, monsieur churchill et Roosevelt et Truman, sauf pour en dire du bien. Pour en revenir à monsieur Hitler, il est une création de la première guerre mondiale provoquée par l'empire Britannique. Après tout, on eut sans doute aimé qu'il reste poète et pacifiste. Et monsieur Staline moinillon. Gandhi, tout pacifiste qu'il soit à partir du moment où il mettait en branle l'indépendance de son pays est le responsable direct de son explosion, de la création du Paskistan et du Bangladesh et des millions de morts qui ont suivi. Sans compter les «déplacés». Comme quoi les meilleures intentions dans le monde réel ne donnent pas nécessairement les meilleurs résultats. Et Jésus, personnalité médiatique de notre civilisation, avec ses 12 amis, a provoqué la création de l'Église Catho et des millions de morts qui ont suivi. ]
[Que dire de monsieur Bush père et fils, Blair, Harper et de la quantité de morts provoquées par leur intervention.]
[Si on parle de monsieur Harper et des meurtres commis en son nom, n'oublions pas que monsieur Williams est un soldat canadien. Soldat, c'est à dire, tueur professionnel. Il y aurait beaucoup à dire au sujet de la naïveté des gens qui croient que l'on peut entraîner quelqu'un dans ce domaine bien particulier de la boucherie sans qu'il en reste des séquelles. Du moins sur certains individus. On les envoie faire ce pour quoi ils ont été formés et on veut rien savoir de leurs activités. Et, à leur retour, on veut encore moins qu'ils en parlent. Le dossier est clos. Que l'aventure guerrière se soit bien ou mal terminé (logiquement: si ça se passe bien, ce sera le contraire pour eux, les autres, là-bas.) Il n'a fait que ce pourquoi il était entraîné. Ce qui est intéressant, c'est qu'il s'en soit pris à des femmes, il faudrait étudier la carrière de l'individu, ce qu'on évitera évidemment de faire. Le sens commun dirait que c'est un fou et qu'il est bon pour l'asile mais comme on ne mêt presque plus personne dans ces immenses institutions vides jadis remplis de milliers de «malades». Il allait donc de soi que les psychiâtres proclameraient toute sa raison, ce qui lui vaut l'emprisonnement avec des criminels professionnels maladroits.]
[Et pour le médias dont le rôle principal est de vendre des annonces, c'est un spectacle de plus dans la catégorie chiens écrasés ou écrapou. $ $ $ $. Ce dont les lecteurs, auditeurs, télespectateurs raffolent sinon ils réclameraient les nouvelles les plus urgences au sujet de l'orchestres symphonique de Montréal. Contrairement à ce que les naïfs imaginent, les médias connaissent très bien leur public. Et ce dont ils ont envie sans même oser se l'avouer. Comme le producteur de porno connaît ses money shot. ]
Vous voyez bien que ce concours ne tient pas la route ou du moins pour moi qui est dans la moyenne de l'intelligence. Mais je dois être un con comme des millions de personnes au Canada.
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Image: http://www.aidedd.org/classes-f89/assassin-t2055.html
ASSASSIN
L'assassin est un mercenaire qui accomplit froidement sa tache, avec un détachement tout professionnel, mais c'est aussi un espion, un chasseur de primes et un terroriste. Artiste craint, entraîné à tuer de nombreuses manières, il joue de la mort comme d'un instrument. Si presque n'importe qui est capable de devenir un assassin, les roublards sont les plus à même de remplir ce rôle de par leurs compétences et leur vision des choses. Ce sont de précieux alliés au cœur de la mêlée, mais ils excellent surtout dans des situations plus clandestines.
L'assassin est un mercenaire qui accomplit froidement sa tache, avec un détachement tout professionnel, mais c'est aussi un espion, un chasseur de primes et un terroriste. Artiste craint, entraîné à tuer de nombreuses manières, il joue de la mort comme d'un instrument. Si presque n'importe qui est capable de devenir un assassin, les roublards sont les plus à même de remplir ce rôle de par leurs compétences et leur vision des choses. Ce sont de précieux alliés au cœur de la mêlée, mais ils excellent surtout dans des situations plus clandestines.
Les meilleurs assassins sont ceux dont leurs victimes n'ont jamais soupçonné l'existence.
Rôle : les assassins sont souvent solitaires et considèrent leurs compagnons au mieux comme des débiteurs. Leurs missions les amènent parfois, et plus ou moins longtemps, à croiser la route d'aventuriers, mais rares sont ceux qui se sentent à l'aise quand un assassin professionnel surveille leurs arrières durant un combat. Ils préfèrent de loin laisser ce tueur froid partir en éclaireur ou préparer des embuscades.
Alignement : égoïste et indifférent par nécessité lorsqu'il s'agit de prendre des vies, l'assassin attire en majorité les alignements Mauvais.
Rôle : les assassins sont souvent solitaires et considèrent leurs compagnons au mieux comme des débiteurs. Leurs missions les amènent parfois, et plus ou moins longtemps, à croiser la route d'aventuriers, mais rares sont ceux qui se sentent à l'aise quand un assassin professionnel surveille leurs arrières durant un combat. Ils préfèrent de loin laisser ce tueur froid partir en éclaireur ou préparer des embuscades.
Alignement : égoïste et indifférent par nécessité lorsqu'il s'agit de prendre des vies, l'assassin attire en majorité les alignements Mauvais.
Parce que cette profession requiert une certaine discipline personnelle, les personnages Chaotiques s'adapteront mal à la vie d'un tueur.
Les quelques personnages Neutres qui choisissent cette voie se considèrent souvent comme de simples professionnels exécutant une tâche, mais la nature de cette tâche les poussera pourtant vers un alignement Mauvais.
CONDITIONS
Pour devenir un assassin, il faut satisfaire aux conditions suivantes.
•Alignement : mauvais
•Compétences : 2 rangs en Déguisement, 5 rangs en Discrétion.
•Spécial : le personnage doit seulement tuer quelqu'un, sans aucune autre raison que celle de devenir un assassin.
CONDITIONS
Pour devenir un assassin, il faut satisfaire aux conditions suivantes.
•Alignement : mauvais
•Compétences : 2 rangs en Déguisement, 5 rangs en Discrétion.
•Spécial : le personnage doit seulement tuer quelqu'un, sans aucune autre raison que celle de devenir un assassin.
