One, newscasts run 30 minutes without commerical interruption. In America, newscasts have about 21 minutes of news and nine minutes of commercials. The French are sensible about sex. Condom dispensers are available along city streets. The government provides morning-after pills in high schools.
French TV is frank about showing the joys of sex.
It shows nudity, foreplay and simulated intercourse. Hence, French streets are strewn with poop. The French daily Le Figaro notes that 16 tons of dog crap foul Paris streets daily. The paper says 650 people a year break bones or are hospitalized by slipping on the turds. In the Gare de Lyon, a major train station, I saw a Parisian calmly let his dog crap on the main concourse with thousands of travelers streaming by.