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'Dr. House is not Mickey Mouse'

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MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Tues 26/9/2011: The moment Carla Bruni fell for "Nicolas the gardener"; Strauss-Kahn set to meet his French accuser; a French journalist is mocked for releasing an album with a song called "Dr. House is not Mickey Mouse" and a Brazilian not-so-murder mystery.

MEDIAWATCH
By James CREEDON
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Did he try the halal haggis?

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Google stops attempts to hack thousands of Iranian web users ahead of vote

Many Iranians who want to surf online have to use a VPN - a Virtual Private Network - via a connection abroad. Iran has had a cyber police force since 2011. Google says there have been attempts to hack into tens of thousands of its accounts in the country prior to Friday's presidential election. We also look at a TV quiz show host in Turkey who re-jigged his programme to satirise Erdogan. And at an unexpected media break-up: the Rupert Murdoch-Wendy Deng divorce.
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We look at information and counter-information in the Turkish crisis. Protesters accuse the government of manipulating the media. Meanwhile, the government is using social networks to argue it is the victim of a conspiracy. The Hurriyet Daily, in one comment piece, headlines: 'Twitter versus Prime Minister Erdogan'. And we also look at what humans might look like in 100,000 years. It's not pretty.

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