Tuesday, November 08, 2005
posted by U*2 @ 4:14 AM
"If you think that French media are downplaying the extent of the actual violence and damage, you are right. Quite a bit of hard news is not being reported both by design and by the circumstances on the ground. State TV has already decided to stop repeating the number of cars burned every day and film crews (particularly white French film crews) are being chased from the suburbs after having their vehicles and equipment torched. The only journalists currently operating freely and without armed escort are from Algerian newspapers (El Watan has been cited as an example). "
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"The Socialist Mayor of Noisy le Grand, speaking on France Culture radio yesterday morning claimed that in his city women were dragged from their cars by their hair and, for all intense and purposes, stoned by rampaging youths (il a employé le terme "quasi lapidées" en fwançais). He also reported that molotov cocktails were thrown into people's homes. He then asked the Army to intervene. The host, somewhat shocked that a Socialist mayor would use such language on a live State radio broadcast, stammered for a few seconds. The reports have since slipped into a French media memory hole."
Like I said, it is done both here and abroad. The French press chooses to under report the riots and US media chooses to exaggerate the chaos in NO. Heck, both the US media and the French media share agendas on many issues including. Just look at the reporting on Iraq. It is hard to find many positive reports on Iraq on the nightly news. If Bush was blowing up churches maybe the press would be more favorable.