Sarkozy strategy to control French media agenda

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 17 January 2008 at 13:08
Tags: Journalism

French journalists are concerned that president Nicholas Sarkozy’s appetite for managing the media and his friendships among the media establishment could stifle press freedom, the BBC’s Paris correspondent Emma Kirby writes.
Kirby’s piece follows a news item on the Today programme on 12 January, the day that Sarkozy was due to welcome former PM Tony Blair, recent romance with pop star [...]

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