Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Media bias on riots in France

Besides, whitewashing the rioters, calling the "youths" or blaming it on the "failure to integrate" or the high unemployment of the rioters, there are other subtle ways the media shows its bias in its reporting.

French Rioting Appears to Lose Strength

France's storm of rioting lost strength on Wednesday with a drop of nearly
half in the number of car burnings, police said.... AP:


If France was a staunch US ally or there was anti-US rioting in Venezula, the Yahoo news title would read "Rioting continues in defiance of curfew" or "Rioting continues for unprecedented 13th day". Buried down in the news article might be an indication that rioting has subsided, but that wouldn't be the main title.

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