Tuesday, December 20, 2005

You Can Say Yes in France! / Voltaire, 16 Dec 2005

http://www.voltairenet.org/article132771.html
Illustrates how the media worldwide feeds on, influences and exarcerbates evnts and happenings. With links to various reports.
"The riots that shook some French suburbs are over now; however, the media still echoes them. The acts of violence 'only' left some shops and several thousand vehicles destroyed, no one killed, but they shook the world. Media experts or political leaders delighted in talking about it. They gave the facts an importance they had not and dared make the most absurd or nauseating comparisons (i.e., a parallel between the acts of violence and hurricane Katrina particularly caught on despite its inconsistencies, and part of the press often predicted the beginning of a religious war). "