Part of the reaction is censorship:
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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.
"Having satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate ... Journalism is not simply a matter of switching on the cameras and letting them roll. You have to think about what you're broadcasting," he said.
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No wonder Bargalunan (and many Frenchmen in my experience) believe in conspiracy theories. In France, there really ARE people trying to stop you from learning the truth.
When the French get all their information from blogs, Mr Dassier will lament the loss of the control that he once enforced over the official, politically-incorrect facts. I understand that blogging is really going full force in France. One sees why.