FIFA president Sepp Blatter has accused the media of dramatising
the crowd violence during Thursday's African Nations Cup semi-final.
Blatter, standing for a fifth presidential term in May's elections,
told the Guardian: "Good news is no news, bad news is news. We only talk
about the bad. Football - which is such a good thing - let it live,
leave it in peace, it's well organised, let them do it."
"I don't
see the negative side of African football that the media presents. It's
normal, we criticise what's good, never what's bad. The unhappy role of
the media is to assume and to forecast."
"In the past, the
government made a decision and the media passed it on. Today, we make
decisions and the media have already presented it. We become slaves to
the media who have already given an opinion."
"The media can play a
role, must play a role, but they must play a role where the notions of
respect and fair play are the basics. Today the world opens the
newspapers, watches television, and sees only murders and killing. We
never talk about princesses marrying any more."
CAF president Issa Hayatou expressed similar sentiments to Blatter
and added: "The press always dramatise, particularly the western press.
The western media are simply here to perpetuate colonisation."
"When
something bad happens in Europe, they say it's an error. When something
happens in Africa, they begin talking about corruption."
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