In a “10 Most Powerful Women in Blogging” piece,
Joi Ito of Technorati (http://joi.ito.com ) has her hands in a lot of Web 2.0 companies, some you might not even know about yet. This makes her damn powerful. Often times the one you don’t know that well is the most powerful. My personal favorite because she seems to help people get shit done.
jack of all blogs
Just one problem, Joi is a boi.
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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.
media guardian emphasis added
Frankly, I have always suspected this is what is affectionately called “news judgement” by the folks who actually run MSM. But it is rare for them to admit it.
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I thought it was just me who noticed that the French riots had suddenly disappeared. I use disappeared advisedly. Even with the most effective curfew and policing one would have anticipated a tapering off. But non, the riots have disappeared from North American MSM. What could have happened??
Captain Ed at Captains Quarters noticed the same thing.
Does the American media suffer from ADHD and find themselves incapable of following an important story for longer than ten days? Or do they find themselves increasingly unable to explain the serious and continued violence despite the bribery and politically-correct strategies employed by French security forces? It seems to me that the media cannot bring themselves to admit that the uprising has more behind it than bored youths looking to blow off some steam and acting spontaneously and unilaterally. The riots have a purpose, and they have a central control structure — and that means someone wants to make specific gains from attacking France.
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Turns out the riots have not ceased at all. In Lyon a power station was attacked. Thursday night’s Car-B-Que index was up Wednesday to Thursday.
Hmmm.
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