PRI’s The World: 03/21/2012 (India, France, North Korea)

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French police corner the suspected Toulouse school shooting gunman. Also, we hear about India’s most admired and most feared politician. And we visit the London foundry where the Liberty Bell was forged.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/amac.contact Alastair Mackay

    Wednesday evening’s segment on the Toulouse killings starts with a lead-in by anchor Lisa Mullins at 9 min 43 sec.  Her thesis:  “The murders in Toulouse have inflamed an already controversial presidential campaign in France, one that’s filled with rhetoric that some have labeled racist.”

    Reporter Gerry Hadden uses his on-air time (to 14 min 00 sec) to validate Mullin’s frame.  His interviews are accompanied by disdain towards the benighted anti-immigrant extremists like Sarkozy, who have visited this tragedy on France.

    Like other hapless al Qaeda wannabes, Frenchman Mohammed Merah was driven to execute people by the relentless drumbeat of right-wing mainstream racism.  At some level he is responsible for his actions, I suppose.  But, given the climate of hate, who can blame him, really?

    It’s the gentility of Hadden’s sneers that make this report into a pitch-perfect exercise in SWPL sensibility.