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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLe Pen refuses credentials for left leaning Indy media. Mainstream media responds by
boycotting FN event.
Great demonstration of solidarity by the media there.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/may/07/french-presidential-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen
The Front National has chosen to exclude some French and international media from its election evening event on 7 May ... Le Monde forcefully condemns this attitude which does not allow proper coverage of a major democratic moment and shows a poor interpretation of press freedom. In solidarity with the media concerned, we have decided we will not be present at this election evening event. This decision will not prevent us from covering the Front National to the same journalistic standards.
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A list of online and mainly left-leaning media organisations and websites say they have not been accredited for the Front Nationals election evening event in the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern edge of Paris.
Organisations including BuzzFeed, Politico, Rue89, Mediapart and Les Jours all said they have been refused admittance. The leftwing daily newspaper Libération has said it will boycott the event in solidarity.
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The French people saw what a disaster Hair Furor is over here, they ran from their own fascist idiot!
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)progressoid
(49,825 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)about fake news
suffragette
(12,232 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)My other favorite reggae bird song
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Love it.
So glad the French rejected the hate.
malaise
(267,823 posts)LePen managed 34.1% - that is licks.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)to it early tonight, when my friend picked up a vinyl album. My deceased father used to tell me that a lot when I was growing up, and hearing it made me miss him. I've been worried a lot lately. Maybe, he is still truing to tell me something.
Also, it was such a authentic Jamaican setting and little girl.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)his kindness and humor, even though, like most of us, he was a flawed character.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)When DT banned them
malaise
(267,823 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)and email.dumps, but they had the advantage of our experience...with Putin, Wikileaks...
tblue37
(64,980 posts)ignorance and prejudice to determine what students learn. The French take education much more seriously than our country does, and they actually teach students about history and politics.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)under DeVoss. Maybe we could just become a colony of France or Canada...I can wish.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Hekate
(90,191 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)"Can't you guys take a joke?" Says the big time loser frantically to a lot of empty seats.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)TeamPooka
(24,156 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)beveeheart
(1,364 posts)between the 2 locations.
Macron has 65%. Video last France!!!!
suffragette
(12,232 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)French state TV vote estimate: Macron 65.1%, Le Pen 34.9%
The centrist Emmanuel Macron is the next president of France, defeating his far right rival Marine Le Pen by a comfortable 65.1% to 34.9%, according to a usually reliable vote estimate by pollsters Ispos/Sopra Steria for French state TV and radio and Le Monde.
Vote estimates by other polling organisations for different French media show a broadly similar result, although some are showing marginal variations. The abstention rate is estimated at 25.3%, the highest since 1969 but not unexpected for such an unusual election.
(From the Guardian live blog link)
malaise
(267,823 posts)Fuck the Con!
suffragette
(12,232 posts)outside the main political parties, but they were wise enough to reject the hate of Le Pen and her cabal.
malaise
(267,823 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)His sorrow in vodka.
And Le Pen's boycotting the lefty news stunt just brought the French media more together.
malaise
(267,823 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Guillaume A. @Guillaume_Alv
Score de Macron selon l'âge (@IpsosFrance)
18-24 ans: 66%
25-34 ans: 60%
35-49 ans: 57%
50-59 ans: 64%
60-69 ans: 70%
70 ans et +: 78%
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/may/07/french-presidential-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Are wiser? Better educated? I'm sure there are lots of reasons.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Half the campaign signs said something about DT
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But one of the big ones, I'm quite confident, is that France saw what happened to us.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)That's not just a decisive victory, that's a humiliation.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Gothmog
(143,999 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)while maintaining an active far right global network and agenda.
Labeling and banishing free press is a large part of that.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Didn't vote.
It will be interesting to see what happens in parlientary elections coming soon.
Good question about Canard. Don't know.
spanone
(135,635 posts)fugg her
a little trump wannabe
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suffragette
(12,232 posts)I'll join you in doing that after indulging in some camembert and vin rouge to enhance the wafting smell.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Who knew!
suffragette
(12,232 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)LOL!
suffragette
(12,232 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)tblue37
(64,980 posts)excludes major media like Washington Post or NY Times from events as a way of punishing them for telling the truth about him.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)such repression not only could but has happened, hopefully they will take the stronger action of standing together against it when it's pulled again.