me too
Posted on 05/19/2017 6:29:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
President Emmanuel Macron has had his first major spat with the media since taking power, after his team imposed restrictions on which journalists could travel with him on a trip to visit French troops stationed in west Africa.
The move, which echoes similar conflicts over media coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States, sparked an angry joint response by more than 20 of the country’s top media outlets, including Le Monde newspaper, Agence France-Presse and state-owned broadcaster France 3.
“In no case must the Elysée decide on those of us who are entitled or not to cover a visit, whatever the theme is,” they wrote in an open letter, which was also signed by the press freedom group […]
The protest came after Macron’s office called media organizations to invite specific journalists who would be able to cover his first official trip outside of Europe, which on Friday was taking him to visit French troops deployed in Mali to help fight radical Islamists in west Africa. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Within 10 years for France and Germany. It’s over.
Reporters, I refuse to call them ‘journalists’, think they are sooooo special and entitled, and automatically support the left wing candidates, in every country. They cannot seem to fathom that THEY ARE THE FIRST TO GO!.......................
The media, who elected them?
I am sorry but every time i see “Macron” in the headline i think it reads “ Maroon”
I think Makron from Quake 2 and Quake 4
Vampires loathe sunlight.
me too
Yeah. And quite frankly, they’ve been that way since the French Enlightenment. I honestly think that making Freedom of the Press an unalienable right for the U.S. Constitution was a mistake, largely because of that. And France suffers still. There has to be a way to undo the French Revolution and cast out the French Enlightenment as the demons they truly were.
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