Why that is so should be a question for the European media review you suggest, and that I think would be a good idea.

I am really hoping that some people would be interested in doing this. I think it might be a nice opportunity to test the collaborative powers of ET. Clearly a lot is going to be written about the French presidential election. Is there a way to create something like a 'debate', but with the 'story' part editable by everyone? A place to gather links to diaries, but also write some synthesis of the whole story as it unfolds? We could go with a wiki page, but I think a comment thread would be useful as well.