The Anchoress

Couldn’t sleep last night and wanted to know what was up in France. I assumed that after 13 nights of violence, the whole situation did not completely “go away…”

And I noticed that I couldn’t find much to read on it. Nothing at all in the US Press. How funny. We read about Katrina for weeks after the storm, including all those pieces by the press in which they wrote about what a great job they did, covering that storm. We even read a few - but only a few -pieces about everything they got wrong.

But apparently the French Intifada is “all over.” Not a headline in sight. Ed Morrissey has noticed it, too.

If an American consumer read today’s newspapers, he would assume that the riots in France have ended. None of the major newspapers that had covered the uprising have any specific updates today on the story, despite the continued overnight violence and an increase in the oddball metric of burnt cars in Paris.

[M]illions of French citizens, whether immigrants or the offspring of immigrants, feel rejected by traditional French society, which has resisted adjusting a vision of itself forged in fires of the French Revolution. The concept of French identity remains rooted deep in the country’s centuries-old culture, and a significant portion of the population has yet to accept the increasingly multiethnic makeup of the nation. Put simply, being French, for many people, remains a baguette-and-beret affair.
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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?

Read it all. One almost feels like the US Press saw the bombings in Jordan and said, “great - GET THOSE FRANCE STORIES OFF THE PRESSES!”

And then check out the post above - about another story you can’t find in the US Media.
FAUSTA has a terrific round-up of non-stories about France and a great map. And Siggy has written something so substantial, it should be published.