The French author who described our Independence Day decorations as an "epidemic" of flags may need to look a little closer to his own home for the disease at full fever: GalliaWatch covers the off-the-field World Cup results.
Funny, though, I didn't see anything about this on the networks last night. Granted, car-burning is not especially newsworthy if it occurs in france, but one might imagine the muggings, outright beatings, and murders in countless cities and towns across a country would be up to at least the status of "mentionable on text crawl" on, say, Good Morning America. So far, I haven't even been able to find it on the ABC website.
How would the networks and such treat this if it were another one of those "cartoons of blasphemy" series of riots? Would it get coverage then? After all, it appears to be largely the same crowd of "youths" tossing the joint and terrorizing innocents, both times. I guess if it doesn't have a cause that can be traced back to us, it doesn't merit coverage.
And, yet, ABC has room on its main page for this, on Albert Einstein's love life. (Don't get me wrong, the release of his old letters is interesting, but it's hardly "breaking news" that he had sex while he was alive. But the man died five years before I was born, and I've been out of school a long looooooooooong time. So, I'm assuming his sex life ended at some time before his thingy started pushing up daisies on 18 April 1955. If not... ewww.)
I gather the "new" in news is subjective, at least as far as the MSM are concerned.
HT: Gateway Pundit
update: typo (Doh! I missed a "d"!) corrected in header.
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