At Least The French Media Is Honest

From Little Green Footballs

French Media Covering Up the Intifada

Riot coverage ‘excessive’, says French TV boss. (Hat tip: Ralph.)

One of France’s leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians.
Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service TCI, said the prominence given to the rioters on international news networks had been “excessive” and could even be fanning the flames of the violence.

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.

“Having satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate ... Journalism is not simply a matter of switching on the cameras and letting them roll. You have to think about what you’re broadcasting,” he said.

Sounds a lot like the US media.

An interesting point, he says, “Having satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate..."

That seems to me to be the best way, show what's actually happening, and let the people decide.

But the media will not, they truly believe they are smarter than the rest of us, and have to give us only the info that will point us in the right direction.

And this was a classic response by The Astute Blogger,

My opinion: the Left are a lying scum Fifth Column who'd rather help the enemy (if it means hurting the Right) than save the West. BTW: you WON'T read about this in the MSM. I wonder why!?