Dear Brothers and Sisters
We Martinique journalists now live a turbulent period in times of crisis. You are aware - or maybe if? - That many problems other than the recurring crisis tourism corrupting these departments overseas you may qualify distant: life
very expensive (four times the city), unemployment (five times the city), social inequalities, explosive racial monopoly ...
Yet inexorably your news coverage is the same: Not a word (except for a few offs) after three weeks of general strike in Guadeloupe: not about the president of the republic and finally a cover that comes very late with sending Secretary of State for Overseas Territories Yves Jégo. And what a cover!
Once again you are engulfed in clichés: the blow to the economy of these islands already in competition with the nearby islands or the labor is cheaper and good reception
best (according to Eric Zemmour in the program "the weekly" on France 0, "we know the harshness of the legendary home in the Caribbean") and the perennial chestnut on cancellations of tour operators.
The rest of us hit hard by the reduction of our staff, by the insecurity of our jobs, look with envy at how you deploy in times of crisis (suburb, hospitals, industry ...) to inform your viewers, listeners and readers. The number of subjects, variations, different angles given in your reports. You are anxious to give voice to all and sundry, to portraits, to investigate for a cover that is meant to be
objectively as possible.
Then we are surprised that in the very specific situation where we are today, you missed so imaginative. Maybe because you're not on the ground? So here are some suggestions if you ever want to angles of interest to you other than by shots to our realities:
On tourism:
Did you know that well before the onset of mobilization, the situation was already dire in the hotel sector in Martinique? Martinique prestigious sites are liquidated, left to property speculation, hundreds of workers are thrown into the street because the speculators choose to substitute hotels with residences they sell at exorbitant prices that few can Martinique s' offer.
Have you ever tried to do a portrait of a pensioner in Martinique that affects 800 euros and must buy a yogurt: 4 euros 99 euros against a 50 on the mainland (the same brand)?
Have you put one of your teams on detonating this report appeared in Le Monde on the extraordinary profits made by oil companies in the Caribbean?
The number of unemployed: 25% (against 8% in the hexagon) also forced to buy five times more expensive than in mainland France with the same benefits, some with tray 5, 6, 7 which not find work in Martinique.
On the margins of distributors exorbitant?
And there are topics to decline! Systematic recruitment of European executives at the expense of local officials, concretisation of land, social unrest ... Why not a portrait of the man who heads the group at the head of the strike in Guadeloupe, became a hero to the entire population of Guadeloupe? Who is he, where is it, why this incredible membership of all classes of Guadeloupe to this mobilization? But maybe all these issues do not interest you, do not people in your JT?
So let us finish by saying that we as journalists Martinique have the feeling that this crisis is much deeper than anything we experienced before. The Canal Plus documentary aired last week on békés of Martinique, a caste of white Creoles living in autarky and holds much of the economy and land in Martinique, was deeply moved and shocked our people and ourselves and it became apparent that there are deep wounds that wake. There are things happening that deserve analysis, visions and explanations.
We try to do our job information as accurately as possible but we have no control over the national media. Only you can choose the angles of interest: the communication of Matignon (who now feared more than any contagion to other French overseas departments and of the hexagon), cancellations of tour operators or you can treat the rest . If ever you're interested!
Although fraternal
A group of journalists Martinique
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