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First is this NPR piece that compares and contrasts the Arnoid - DSK stories:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136583945 ... nd-consent
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Then we have NPR's Eleanor Beardsley lamenting the journalistic and societal proclivities of the French.
Eleanor Beardsley, that paragon of journalistic integrity who worked for Strom Thurmond prior to NPR, suggests that if la presse française could only be more like the British or American press some of this nastiness could be avoided.
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/05/20/01