Is Paris Burning?
November 3rd 2006 07:16
Last year, just about this time, there were widespread riots in France. It made the world sit up and notice what had been going on for a long time. But, once the riots, so did the coverage.
It turns out that the riots did not stop. They had been going on the whole year long, so much so that the a police commissioner called it an intifada against France. There are 14 attacks per day on policemen. 100 vehicles per day smashed and torched is considered normal. The number goes up to 1400 during a riot. Whole neighboorhoods have been sealed off. Not just policemen, any government official cannot go into these neighborhoods.
That's the rosy reality of Europe today. The European Dream is rapidly burning away to cinders.
Meanwhile, a jaw-dropping example of media self-censorship via Atlasshrugs.:
In France, the function of journalists is not to inform, some of them think they have a kind of “mission” (I ve seen this answer from a French journalist), a political and educative mission. Last year Jean Claude Dassier, the boss of LCI (owned by TF1, first French TV network) said an extraordinary thing for a journalist:: "Politics in France is heading to the right and I don't want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television.”
If you show reality, it will turn people to the right. Hence, the news media will ignore news.
It turns out that the riots did not stop. They had been going on the whole year long, so much so that the a police commissioner called it an intifada against France. There are 14 attacks per day on policemen. 100 vehicles per day smashed and torched is considered normal. The number goes up to 1400 during a riot. Whole neighboorhoods have been sealed off. Not just policemen, any government official cannot go into these neighborhoods.
That's the rosy reality of Europe today. The European Dream is rapidly burning away to cinders.
Meanwhile, a jaw-dropping example of media self-censorship via Atlasshrugs.:
In France, the function of journalists is not to inform, some of them think they have a kind of “mission” (I ve seen this answer from a French journalist), a political and educative mission. Last year Jean Claude Dassier, the boss of LCI (owned by TF1, first French TV network) said an extraordinary thing for a journalist:: "Politics in France is heading to the right and I don't want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television.”
If you show reality, it will turn people to the right. Hence, the news media will ignore news.
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