The massacre was also deliberately covered up or worse lied about by other "news" outlets including the NY Times, The Times, Time Magazine etc.... https://www.

The massacre was also deliberately covered up or worse lied about by other "news" outlets including the NY Times, The Times, Time Magazine etc.... https://www.wrmea.org/1997-march/a-1961-massacre-of-algerians-in-paris-when-the-media-failed-the-test.html https://www.wrmea.org/1997-march/a-1961-massacre-of-algerian... From the link above: The full horror of this inglorious 1961 episode in French history was largely covered up at the time. Though harrowing personal accounts did eventually percolate to the surface in the French press, the newspapers—enfeebled by years of government censorship and control—for the most part stuck with official figures that only two and, later, five people had died in the demonstration. Government-owned French TV showed Algerians being shipped out of France after the demonstration, but showed none of the police violence. Journalists had been warned away from coverage of the demonstration and were not allowed near the detention centers. With few exceptions, the British and American press stuck to the official story, including suggestions that the Algerians had opened fire first. Even the newsman who saw the piles of Algerian corpses was not allowed to report the story; his bosses ordered that the bureau reports stick to the official figures. Both French and foreign journalists in Paris seemed tacitly to agree that nothing should be done to further destabilize the French government or endanger de Gaulle, who was widely seen as the last, best hope for navigating France out of its troubles. The story quickly died, drowned out by fresher alarums and excursions in Europe and elsewhere. And, of course, in the next year, Algeria would have its independence. Jacques Vergàs, the controversial French lawyer who represented the FLN during the war in Algeria, told me in an interview last summer that the police violence and government and press cover-up in 1961 were not surprising. The political circumstances were right for it, and the news media usually do what they’re told. Just look at how easy it was to round up and intern American citizens of Japanese descent after Pearl Harbor, he observed. -- More on American and French journalism: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/108118001129172062 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/108118001129172...