Since Sunday, the media have all covered in details the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, candidate to the French presidential elections, President of the IMF, socialist and a celebrity in French who was thought to have a really good shot at the elections.
My personal thought, besides, honestly, a certain amount of shame, was that for once the media were able to use sensational news and talk about politics in the same time. The truth is that DSK did not just hurt his individual potential success but that this whole scandal is going to have consequences for the French socialist party as a whole. This story is therefore a key in the upcoming French presidential elections and knowing that the extreme right is gaining more and more prominence, I am sure that it is going to use it to get even more voices. This story is most probably a turning point in these French presidential elections. What I therefore don't understand is why, why on Earth doesn't anyone in the newspapers actually say so and thoroughly analyze the repercussions? You have an amazing story right here and you can even sound serious while telling it? Why the focus on the scandal and the sensation, still, even now, when it would be so easy to turn it into professional, objective, analytical and still critical news?
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