This! has to take the cake for bad faith reporting.
I use the word ‘reporting’ loosely.
I mean, we’ve had to endure years of idiotic bashing by US and Brit “journalists” about everything from our national character to our supposed personal habits to our economy. Not a single article about anything about France without some obligatory mention of the French economy being “in shambles” or some similar desperate state. And what have our media, and us, done in return? Pretty much ignore them. That’s right, most French people don’t even know who Bill O’Reilly or Dennis Miller or Jay Leno are. Really, who in France gives a damn about what Fox News or the Murdoch press have to say about us? Except for this blog, Miquelon and a few expats, nobody, that’s who. Even our own embassy ignores much of the bashing! Show me one article in our media, just one, saying “we told you so” about Iraq!
Even now, with the financial crisis hitting those critics with the full force of their ideological rigidity, can you give me examples of gloating on our part? The worst I hear, including from here, is a hopeful sigh of relief that we might finally stop having to hear from them about how backwards we are economically (and in just about every other way.)
No such luck of course. But the bad faith required to keep us as their whipping boy is gonna have to increase markedly. Which is, I bet, what Ms. Di Giovanni is really bitching about!
