What Liberal Media Bias?

Ed Morrissey, who's both a gentleman and a scholar, has a distressing, unsurprising post on why the French media has intentionally under-covered the country's rioting Youths. Morrissey quotes this Guardian interview:

Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service LCI, 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.

But of course. If only Mary Mapes would be so honest.