The rioting continues in France (we’ll have more to say about that here later). Notes Centerfield’s Tully:
What the reportage dances around in almost all of the articles I have seen is that the rioters are Muslims. Instead, the phraseology is “youths” or “marauding youths,” and “immigrants,” from “neighborhoods with large African and Muslim populations.” If you get that much. But the media doesn’t seem to want to actually come out and say that these “non-spontaneous, organized gangs” of rioters are Muslims.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.