French media admit to cover-up on the riots
We wondered a few days ago why we were only seeing sanitized pictures of the riots, mostly with policemen standing around. Now we know, courtesy of the Anchoress:
Mr Dassier said his own channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, recently decided not to show footage of burning cars. “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,” Mr Dassier told an audience of broadcasters at the News Xchange conference in Amsterdam today.
[H]e admitted his decision was partly motivated by a desire to avoid encouraging the resurgence of extreme rightwing views in France. French broadcasters have faced criticism for their lack of coverage of the country’s worst civil unrest in decades. Public television station France 3 has stopped broadcasting the numbers of torched cars while other TV stations are considering following suit.
Well, that’s refreshing. More upfront than our own MSM. (HT: Larwyn)
UPDATE
Not craw, CRAW! — if you will recall a rather obscure reference that forms our introduction to Joe Farah’s scary/funny appeal for the French to create a Paristinian state.