“Lighten up, France’s”?
A misplaced apostrophe is a minor distraction when compared with some of the more egregious errors that appear these days in every major print medium. Examples include misuse of the words there, their, and they're and marshall vs. martial law. Such errors do distract and detract from the message since they indicate either or both a poor education and greater than warranted trust in spell-check. Besides, even the bright and well educated sometimes just screw up. Try reading how even the best educated pre-Websters and Oxford dictionaries English speakers spelled (or is it spelt?). However they did it the message nearly always got across.