Censorship & Self-Censorship
By Leah McBride Mensching, Tuesday 15 May 2007 at 23:50 :: Press Freedom & Laws :: #173 :: rss
by Tatiana Repkova
Journalists of the Journal du Dimanche addressed an open letter to Arnaud Lagardère, head of the group that owns the newspaper, in which they denounce the “unacceptable censorship” after the non-publication of an article on Cécilia Sarkozy.
"You intervened Saturday with the editorial direction so that this article is not published,"JDD journalists wrote. "We consider that it is a matter of unacceptable censorship, in contrast to the press freedom.” The journalists believe equally that "the short article, purely factual (revealing that Cécilia Sarkozy had not voted May 6 during the second round of the presidential election) was the result of an investigation at the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine. AFP; May 15, 2007
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