More Crock in the News

AIM (Accuracy in Media) claimed Saudi billionaire Prince Al-waleed manipulated Fox News coverage of the France riots. As a shareholder of Fox he influenced a change in the story from one of Muslim riots to riots due to poverty and inequality. AIM (rightwing stink who support Pinochet) is calling for a "full inquiry." AIM claims to be a "grassroots, watchdog citizens group who critique [initiate] botched and bungled news."

However, the Left's esteemed professor, Juan Cole, among others, agree with the Prince in that the riots are the result of poverty and discrimination. Cole also says of the French rioters : "The young people from North African societies such as Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are mostly only nominal Muslims. They frequently do not speak much Arabic, and don't have "proper" French, either. They frequently do not know much about Islam and most of them certainly don't practice it."

The alarm AIM is sending is : Arab controlling US media coverage and brags about it. But looks to me like Fox, for once, substituted truth for propaganda, an act that bewilders and frightens the Right. Not a happy moment for blame Islam firsters.