Hello,just as an addendum, not to aatgnonize in any way, I'd just like to react to Alden's post... Though Le Monde's CEO personnaly (slightly) supported Mme Royal, this paper as a whole ran a pro-Sarkozy campaign, and has consistently followed (from day one, back in the 50s) a centrist (i.e. right-centre-right) ideological line, even though its reader-base mostly consists in well-off progressives (which could explain some of its agressive (but harmless on the whole) commentaries, accurately mentioned by Alden).Since he's made known he'd be running, Sarkozy has drawn very, very few criticism in the media (even the communist paper l'Humanite9 is owned by Lagarde8re...); Furthermore, his blatant lie about Vincent Bollore9's (owner of CSA, one of the big 3 polling institutes) public contracts wasn't even questioned in the Press... Well, opinion & media coverage in France are serious issues.

by Mamat 10:33:07 PM 2012.10.02