Royal in Porto: the anglophone press doesn’t care

A quick check of Google News this morning maybe explains why Ségolène Royal’s speech yesterday was 100% in French. Searching Google News – French Version – for ‘Ségolène Royal’ gives more than 20 articles about her speech in Porto, with titles such as ‘Ségolène Royal ovationnée au Portugal’ – do the search here. Compare that to the English version of Google news – not a single article appears. Try the search here. Trying a search for PES Porto or PES Congress in Google News does not give any better results.

Beyond that, the blogosphere is not really buzzing with debate about the Congress – my posts here are the only ones listed in Technorati and Google Blogsearch.