Huffpost Media   Edward Wasserman Headshot  News Media Blow the
Mideast Rioting Story  Posted: Updated:   The coverage is knit
together by primordial bigotry and vile stereotypes. In Muslim
countries, the media inflame ancestral hates and rekindle what
Fouad Ajami calls "a deep and enduring sense of humiliation."
News reports goad the masses, pointing to the video as yet
another insult by a decadent, predatory West intent on cruelly
defiling the most cherished elements of Islam.  U.S. media, for
their part, fill their screens with images of bestial fury by
throngs of wild-eyed lunatics, incapable of restraint and
impervious to reason, fanatics whose forebears once screamed
"the Quran or the sword" and held the U.S. embassy in Tehran
hostage.  Here we go again. Islamist leaders accuse Western
governments of furtively promoting anti-Muslim slander; their
media scoff at official denunciations of the video here and the
use of anti-blasphemy laws in Europe to protect Muslims there
from vilification. U.S. leaders i