NO. NO MEDIA BIAS.

What do you say when a left-leaning British paper runs a story about a left-leaning French TV news network actually admitting an editorial policy designed to retard support for right-leaning parties?

In the words of Ford Prefect, "well, it must be TRUE then!"

Witness:

One of France's leading TV news executives has
admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of
encouraging support for far-right politicians.

Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of
the rolling news service TCI, 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.

"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.

I wholeheartedly disagree . . . what could be more objective than simply turning on the cameras and letting them roll?