Media Bias Shown in NYT Non-Coverage of Paris Riots

New York Times ^ | November 6, 2005 | James Glucksman

[JBGUSA]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 6, 2005 Filed at 9:27 a.m. ET

PARIS (AP) -- Worsening urban unrest reached central Paris for the first time early Sunday and youths set ablaze shops, businesses, schools and nearly 1,300 cars from France's Mediterranean resort towns to the German border.

Some 2,300 police poured into the Paris region to bolster security overnight while firefighters moved out around the city to douse blazing vehicles. Police reported nearly 200 arrests nationwide.

Police also found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a rundown building in Evry, a southern Paris suburb that contained 150 explosives, more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, Jean-Marie Huet, a senior Justice Ministry official, said Sunday.

[JBGUSA]

More on the New York Times and mass media bias. The following article was posted on Page 3 of the Sunday Times (with no front page coverage of this story, ever

New York Times Nov. 6, 2005, Page 3 (Link)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 6, 2005 Filed at 9:27 a.m. ET

PARIS (AP) -- Worsening urban unrest reached central Paris for the first time early Sunday and youths set ablaze shops, businesses, schools and nearly 1,300 cars from France's Mediterranean resort towns to the German border.

Some 2,300 police poured into the Paris region to bolster security overnight while firefighters moved out around the city to douse blazing vehicles. Police reported nearly 200 arrests nationwide.

Police also found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a rundown building in Evry, a southern Paris suburb that contained 150 explosives, more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, Jean-Marie Huet, a senior Justice Ministry official, said Sunday.

French riot police patrolled
a housing complex northwest
of Paris on Saturday night.

For the second night in a row, a helicopter equipped with spotlights and video cameras to track bands of marauding youths combed the Paris suburbs from the air and small teams of police were deployed to chase down rioters speeding from one attack to another in cars and on motorbikes.

The violence took a potentially alarming turn with attacks in the well- guarded French capital. Police said 32 cars were set afire there, mostly on the northern and southern edges of the city.

Contrast with this Front Page story:

New York Times Nov. 6, 2005, Page 1 (Link)

November 6, 2005 And Sometimes, the Island Is Marooned on You By PAM BELLUCK SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The island of Island Pond had it in for Andrew Renna.

Or so it seemed one Saturday evening a few weeks ago. In the middle of a pounding storm, Mr. Renna looked out across the pond, which borders his backyard.

Jodi Hilton for the New York Times
A storm blew the island of Island Pond,
in Massachusetts, into Andrew Renna's
property, where it swamped his backyard before
being towed away.

"It was raining crazy," he recalled. "I said, 'That wind's going to blow that thing right over here.' Ten minutes later it did. When it moves, it moves pretty quick."

The island, about the size of a football field, made a beeline for Mr. Renna's house - crushing his three-foot chain-link fence, swamping his red-blue-and-purple flagstone patio, wrecking his dock, flooding his shed, hobbling his weeping willow, and drowning the oregano, cilantro, tomatoes and peppers in his garden. Then, with an insouciant shrug, it came to a standstill in Mr. Renna's backyard, an interloper squatting in stubborn silence.

"Normally when it floats you can actually hear the roots rip - it sounds like ripping up carpet," said Mr. Renna, 51, a roofing and siding sales manager. "But this time, it didn't make any noise."

Island Pond's island has been floating for as long as anyone can remember, buoyed by a mat of sphagnum moss and gases from decomposing plants. It is a curiosity and sometimes a nuisance for the 20 or so homes around the shoreline of this nine-acre pond in Springfield, Mass.

*snip*

Keep in mind, Springfield, Massachusetts is about 120 miles from New York City so this does not qualify as local news. It is clear that the Times is shunting unfavorable stories about Muslims to obscure parts of the paper.

[ncountylee]

The director of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, one of the country's leading Muslim figures, met Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Saturday and urged the government to choose its words carefully and send a message of peace.

A warning from the scum!

[InsureAmerica]

I thought the NYT was published in france, no?

[Boundless]

> The director of the Great Mosque of Paris... urged
> the government to choose its words carefully and
> send a message of peace.

I'm sure they can save some time by re-using some of the
words sent from Paris to Germany in the 1930s.

[Earthdweller]

What do you make of the reports of shootings from the APF today?? It's the first I have heard of shootings.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1516654/posts?page=1 .

"PARIS (AFP) – the 10th consecutive night of urban violences ignited in the ghettos close to Paris and in surrounding areas, with a hundred cases of vehicle arson and ten shootings by 22H00. "

[jocko12]

Who reads NYT (new york tabloid)

[Thombo2]

In other words,the NYTimes is saying that nothing newsworthy is going on in France.How can members of the msm call themselves journalist's and keep a straight face?

[JBGUSA]

Thombo2- "In other words,the NYTimes is saying that nothing newsworthy is going on in France.How can members of the msm call themselves journalist's and keep a straight face?"

They cannot.

But maybe the story of a floating island of weeds in Springfield, Mass. tops the Paris story in importance to the world.

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

[Thombo2]

The American public are catching on to the msm.They're hemorrhaging readers(and viewers)and in essence becoming increasingly irrelevant.

[JBGUSA]

Thombo2 - "The American public are catching on to the msm.They're hemorrhaging readers(and viewers)and in essence becoming increasingly irrelevant."

Obviously they can't. That's why the New York Sun hits my driveway every morning, along with the New York Times and the local paper. The article about the floating island was written to a Fourth Grade reading level. Clearly, there audience does not expect to be treated as adults.