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Pick a riot in the United States. Virtually every single one not only made the networks in France, but was the highlight for days to come, with detailed video every step of the way. Even days after the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles, the French television stations were running the story of the riot with 'new details', implying that this was still going on.

Miami riots? To the top of the news broadcast.

The response in the United States to the French riots has been - there are riots? The coverage is so minimal that most people don't even know that it is not just in one city (if they know that much.)

Imagine the field day France would have had with riots across the United States. They'd show hours upon hours of video footage of that. But if the total exposure of the French riots on network news exceeds fifteen minutes in the last two weeks, I'd be shocked.

The questions that French journalists should be asking right now is not how to minimalize the coverage - it is already minimal. What they should be asking is 'Why doesn't anyone care?' Oh, sure, they care in Denmark who is having the same problem, but most of Europe is mum on it as well.

Riots in fifty towns affecting millions of people and it gets far less coverage than the Ditch (sounds like hitch.) If the French are supposedly the center of the world's culture, a cultural war in that country should be full coverage, everywhere. It isn't. And France should be deeply worried about that.