Day Seven of Rioting, and the Times Is AWOL

After seven days of riots in Paris and its surrounding towns, the New York Times is still AWOL on the reporting. They have a story of Chirac calling for calm, but it's so far below the fold on the International page of the website that one would almost miss the news altogether.

We're talking about major riots for seven consecutive days affecting a major European city. Hundreds of cars have been torched and there's no sign that the French can stop the violence, which has actually been ongoing since the beginning of the year (20-40 cars torched a night, thousands of stonings of police cars, etc.).

This, my friends, is the 'paper of record'?! For shame.

For comparison, CNN has the story above the fold and the third story on the right side of the page at 9:10AM EST. The rioting is above the fold at MSNBC, and is the featured story on FoxNews. The Washington Post has the story just below the fold on its website. Good luck trying to find the story at the LA Times website or at the Boston.com (Boston Globe) website.