The night's activity: 400 cars and 27 buses burned in the Paris area. 3 warehouses burned down and many government and administrative buildings hit by fire bombs. Car burnings being reported in other regions of the country. Despite this the French preSS is stating that the violence is down and that there were no riots last night. Now that the French have seen how all of this is being reported in other parts of the world, there is a concerted effort by French media to downplay the violence and show as little of it as possible. i-Tele and Europe1 have already openly discussed reporting less on the riots (so as to not fan the flames), and LCI cable TV news (owned by TF1) is opening the day's newscast with reports of the Marseille transit strike, now in day 32.
I wonder what they'll report when all of these so-called "leaders" are lined up against a wall for mass executions after the muslims take over?
Good one.
This blog has been on the case about the gulf between manipulated media reports and what's happening on the ground.
Also mentioned the huge preponderance of public opinion in favor of asserting control reflected in such talk radio as there is in France.