Privacy and accomplices of the powerful journalists

One of the things that the affair Strauss-Kahn highlighted is typically French attitude that is consumed in the name of respect for privacy: ilNew York Times calls him "The Code of Silence", a form of privacy that is carried to excess which is now under consideration and mea culpa. The Code follows a clear ritual: "A scandal threatens to destroy the reputation of a powerful figure in France.

The contradictions in Washington DC / 2

For many years, crime in Washington DC was American as apple pie. In the same hours of the arrest of Mayor Vincent Gray, of which I spoke in the first of these two bets, your favorite blogger was under Capitol Hill for a brief visit, the third within two decades. The city is historically famous for its crime rate among the highest in America, a result of the race riots of 1968 and the crack epidemic of the eighties, which led to the end of last century, particularly the emptying of entire neighborhoods by white, with a loss of 200,000 people in 800,000.