MSM: Double and/or Triple and/or No Standards

While some of us have taken a few days off it is good to see our betters in the MSM never sleep:

One of France's leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country ....

Out of public security concerns? Out of concern over encouraging the rioters by letting them see their handywork on television?

This post being about the MSM, neither possibility could be further from the truth. The real reason for this censorship:

.... for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians.

Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service LCI, said the prominence given to the rioters on international news networks had been "excessive" and could even be fanning the flames of the violence.

Mr Dassier said his own channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, recently decided not to show footage of burning cars.

"Politics in France is heading to the right and I don't want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television," Mr Dassier told an audience of broadcasters at the News Xchange conference in Amsterdam today.

When it comes to the MSM, anything that fits the leftwing agenda = good, truth be damned.

Of course if the shoe was on the other foot the Left would hyper-bleat in unison, "CENSORSHIP!", investigations would be held, indictments issued, and Michael Moore would have his next treatment banged out by sundown.

Gosh, I wonder if something like this has ever happened before in the annals of media.....

h/t: NP

Update: Comprehensive round-up of leftwing censorship at the Brussels Journal