Blatter slams media negativity
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter and CAF chief Issa Hayatou accused Western media yesterday of dramatizing the crowd violence which marred the African Nations Cup semifinal between Ghana and Equatorial Guinea.
Projectiles were hurled at players and supporters, a police helicopter was called to disperse fans in the stadium and conflict continued outside the ground after the match.
“Good news is no news, bad news is news,” Blatter told reporters at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between FIFA and the Confederation of African Football. “We only talk about the bad. Football, which is such a good thing, let it live, leave it in peace, it’s well organized, let them do it.
“I don’t see the negative side of African football that the media presents,” Blatter added. “It’s normal, we criticize 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.”
CAF President Hayatou also accused the press of exaggerating events.
“The press always dramatize, particularly the western press,” he said.
“When something bad happens in Europe, they say it’s an error. When something happens in Africa, they begin talking about corruption. What happened in that match between Serbia and Italy,?” he said in reference to the Euro 2012 qualifier abandoned due to hooliganism. “It’s the same as what happened here, but when it’s Africa it’s different. The western media are simply here to perpetuate colonization.”
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