Nathan Moore's Thoughts
Paris is Burning II
It appears that France didn’t appease enough to sufficiently placate the Muslim world. More information here, here, here, and here.
UPDATE The Washington Post finds someone to make excuses for the rioters. Something about seeking “recognition” and the youths are tired of being “ignored”
One of Rezzoug’s “kids” — the countless youths who use the sports facilities he oversees — is a husky, French-born 18-year-old whose parents moved here from Ivory Coast. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, he’d just awakened and ventured back onto the streets after a night of setting cars ablaze.
“We want to change the government,” he said, a black baseball cap pulled low over large, chocolate-brown eyes and an ebony face. “There’s no way of getting their attention. The only way to communicate is by burning.”
Well, criminality is a form of recogniation. The Post giving credence to an excuse born out of immaturity is like a parent trying to befriend their bratty child by trying to be “cool”. In short, it just doesn’t work. And in this case, the misbehavior is at the cost of people’s property, and potentially their lives.
FURTHER UPDATE To clarify, I am more perturbed with the stated rationale for the rioting than I am with The Washington Post’s coverage of it. More discussions with one or two of the 1,000 people who have had their cars burned out about the lack of youth “recognition” would have been nice, though.
FURTHER UPDATE UPDATE Donald Sensing and Sharon Cobb have more as well.
November 6th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
I’m not sure that reporting what someone says or thinks about something is giving credence to that point of view. I agree with your point overall, but as a reporter, isn’t it his/her job to try to get the POV of someone involved in the rioting?
A much larger point to be made (and you’ve already made it somewhat) is that the main stream media is really not getting this story. They are reporting symptoms. Instapundit, the Belmont Group you’ve linked, and other bloggers seem to be the only substantive news sources.
November 6th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
To an extent I do agree with your first point – a reporter’s got to find the news. However no balance was provided, save a few notes about older citizens who tried to get them to stop. I guess I’m more condemnatory of the attitude of the rioters than I am of the coverage of the Post, though it may not initially have come across that way when I wrote it.
Thanks for the comment,
NSM
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