IHT: A feud over press freedom boils over in France - by Katrin Bennhold
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A feud over press freedom boils over in France - by Katrin Bennhold
First, President Nicolas Sarkozy's party accused Agence France-Presse of "censorship" for not publishing one of its press releases. Ten days later, the government suggested that the news agency create a service dedicated to publishing press releases. Press freedom has long been an uneasy subject in France, a country where many newspapers rely on government subsidies and where defense contractors control large swaths of the print and broadcast media.
