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Friday, November 04, 2005
AOL Time-Warner: People Don't Like Bush
So I dial up AOL (how old-fashioned, I know). The lead story:
Thousands Protest Bush at Summit
So I go to the news page.
There's a 4x3 image of the world standing up to Bush.
Three inches down, there's a postage stamp size image of flames and God knows what.
That's because they're torching cars in the hundreds again in Paris.
Funny how when Bush gets protested abroad, AOL Time-Warner needs to make sure we know that people are unhappy with him.
But when France is on the edge of civil war, in spite of their valiant efforts to placate Muslims by rolling over on the Saddam affair, the story's worn out after a few days.
If the government of France is overthrown, and Bush gets egged, you know what will be the lead.
Because the only real story for AOL Time-Warner is getting rid of Bush.
And as attentive as we were to France's advice about the Muslim street when they were, in their own turn, castigating Bush, now that the Muslim street is literally rolling up the sidewalks in Paris, how France deals with Muslims is of secondary interest.
posted by gbarto at 8:44 PM
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