Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Burying ledes

In a Paris suburb, Islamic youths have been rioting for 6 days. If all you read was the AP, though, you may not get that "Islamic" part. In this story, they don't really mention who's rioting in the Paris suburbs. In fact, they only mention the makeup of these individuals once, in paragraph #11:
Suburbs that ring France's big cities, home to immigrant communities often from Muslim North Africa, suffer soaring unemployment and discrimination. Disenchantment and anger thrive in the tall cinderblock towers and long "bars" that make up the projects.
Ah yes, hard hitting journalism that gets to the bottom of a story.

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