Networks Blame British Riots on Poverty, Ignore Moral, Economic Failur

Paul Wilson
August 17th, 2011 4:37 PM
Arson, destruction, thievery, beatings and even murder – they’re the inevitable reaction to increased college tuition fees? To hear the broadcast news networks spin the violence and looting convulsing English cities in August, the riots were clashes between the “haves and the have-nots” (a term used by NBC reporter Martin Fletcher) in British society. According to the networks, an oppressed…