David Rothkopf: Here's What the World's Media Thinks of the Jan. 6 Hearings

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If democracy dies in the US--and face it, right now it is in the ICU, it will send big aftershocks worldwide. Judging from how int'l media covered last night's hearings, I'm not sure many fully understand what's at stake.

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Here's What the World's Media Thinks of the Jan. 6 Hearings
International media outlets are watching the hearings, but most don’t seem to grasp how their countries are affected by them.
10:40 AM · Jun 10, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-the-worlds-media-thinks-of-the-jan-6-hearings?ref=home

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“The world is watching what we do here,” said Rep. Benny Thompson, chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol. “America has long been expected to be a shining city on a hill. A beacon of hope and freedom. A model for others—when we’re at our best,” he added.

Judging from global press’ reaction to the Jan 6. Committee’s first public hearings, he is right. The planet is paying attention. And though international media outlets certainly covered the event, it was typically framed as a local U.S. story—bumptious politics as usual from a divided America—and not in terms of its broader implications for America’s standing, or of what these hearings might mean for the future of democracy worldwide.

News items typically zeroed in on the core case made by Thompson and the committee’s vice chair, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, which is that former U.S. President Donald Trump was at the center of an attempted coup against the government of the United States.

France’s Le Monde featured a headline that read, “Donald Trump 'lit the fuse' for Capitol assault, commission of inquiry finds.” The article focused on Cheney’s assertion that Trump “oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of power.” Le Devoir offered a similar perspective with a headline that did not require the reader to be a French-speaker to understand: “Donald Trump mis au centre d’une conspiration antidémocratique.”

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[crickets]

1. K&R for visibility.

Because the real headline that should have come out of yesterday’s hearings was not about Ivanka or Jared or hanging Vice President Pence or combat-like violence against Capitol Police. It is that the world’s leading democracy is in critical condition, and unless it can be saved through hearings like these, and by the actions of the Department of Justice and by voters going to the polls, the consequences for the entire planet will be profound.

[empedocles]

2. The initial report, no longer available, of the Guardian, was great.

[True Blue American]

5. This one?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/10/how-was-the-first-january-6-hearing-our-panel-weighs-in

[empedocles]

6. No. Your selection was good though

[Bev54]

3. I didn't check but I suspect CNN international will play the full hearing

Something also to be aware, it was on during the middle of the night over in Europe so would not grab the attention of most people.

[Wounded Bear]

4. K & R...nt

[uponit7771]

7. K&R, this leans me more towards DOJ is gonna unleash hell but I pray its before Nov elections