Discuss the response of mainstream media and politicians to the Berlin attack and the criticisms of their handling of the situation.
Ash is a politically correct idiot but he used the fact that it was a murdered Polish truck driver whose vehicle was used for the massacre to segue into Pope John Paul II. Ash's idiocy ("it's too soon to say what was behind the Berlin attack") is mainstream though. Wolfgang Münchau ("A Culture of Denial", December 21) notes that the German media were the worst, for a long time not even admitting that  this was an attack, not a traffic accident. A German would get better information on this atrocity if he went to the Corriere della Sera or some other European source outside of Germany.