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.
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One of the things I was struck by when watching France2 News regularly for a while a couple years ago was how much editorializing there was in stories that seemed like the first step should have been just to establish the basic facts. Instead, it was as if these "reporters" were mindreaders.
We're really into postmodern territory now, insofar as there is no unified version of the "truth," only fragments here and there.
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