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By Richard TOMPSETT (text)

 

Libération
 
On Tuesday the French parliament starts considering legislation on broadcast reforms - including cutting advertising on the state television network France Télévisions and leaving it up to the president to appoint broadcasting chiefs. The proposals have been widely condemned by French newspapers, which have painted the legislation as a backward step to the state television of the Sixties and Seventies, and a fresh power play by President Nicolas Sarkozy. That is reflected in the headline in Libération today, which plays on the French word for remote control.
 
Aujourd'hui en France / Le Parisien
 
The future of French broadcasting also makes the front page of Aujourd'hui en France. Inside there's a cartoon with characters from an old French children's programme "Bonne-nuit les petits" (Goodnight Kids) with two characters from the show lamenting the possibility that they may have to go back to work at their ripe age.
 
 
Also inside Aujourdhui en France, a man from the central French region of Corrèze who built his own 17 metre Eiffel Tower replica almost 20 years ago has put it up for sale for 30,000 euros. The future buyer will have to cut it in three to transport it.
 
The Independent

There's much in the papers today about US President-elect Barack Obama choosing his financial team. One of those appointed was Lawrence Summers, who will be the next chief of America's National Economic Council. The Independent suggests that sexist remarks Summers made back in 2005 might have prevented him from heading the US Treasury.
 

Reviews of the new Guns 'n' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" have been largely positive. But as the Independent reports today, it hasn't been a hit with China's ruling Communist Party. The paper published by the party, the Global Times, claims it's an attack on the Chinese nation.
 
Daily Express
 
The British daily reports that an ornate electric teapot gifted to the British monarch twenty years ago has been removed from her Scottish residence Balmoral after being identified as a possible bugging device.
 
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