obsession about flaming images

i keep hearing a lot of controversy about whether France should be showing images of the burning buildings, firefighters, etc on TV. i'm sick of it.

i don't pretend that i watch a lot of TV but i have been seeing more coverage of the 'live' footage on US and UK channels - meaning more flames. The French news (i don't have the pay 24h news channel, LCI) shows some burning images as well as extinguished/burned cars. The reporting also shows images and interviews of the youth, local community leaders, parents and politicians. What's wrong with that?

while CNN and Fox News are showing the same burning buildings over and over, French TV is airing live roundtable debates with various actors and interested folks.

in fact, news channels here are purposefully limiting raw images and counting numbers on TV because they think that was inciting gangs to compete against each other for the 'most' cars, etc...

The WSJ has it wrong. Here are excerpts since that link will soon die:
Only the French themselves aren't necessarily watching the same thing as the rest of the planet.... The country's largest private television network, TF1, refrains from airing footage of burning cars or buildings. ... The state-owned television channels, France 2 and France 3, have stopped reporting on the number of cars torched by rioting young immigrants every night. ... Explaining their restraint, TV execs say that they want to avoid inciting further violence. We've quibbled with al Jazeera's news judgment in airing any al Qaeda video that comes its way. But the riots in France have become a "national emergency," as President Jacques Chirac declared yesterday, playing out in the streets of the country's cities. Pretending otherwise won't help France understand or come to grips with the problems in the burning banlieues that have caught most of France -- certainly, consumers of its television news -- by surprise. They shouldn't have been.

this last bit is ridiculous. France is not pretending that there is no problem here. Read the written press - it is all people are writing about. Does no one read anymore? Blasting images does not make a problem real or more serious. What about showing images of community leaders protecting a building during a night vigil? Or interviews with parents who are at a loss? or community leaders who don't agree with the governments decisions? where are these images on the US and UK news?