MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Mon. 30/1/2012: President Nicolas Sarkozy was interviewed by four journalists at the Elysée Palace on Sunday night in a carefully-choreographed show broadcast across 8 different channels. We take a look at this very French communications exercise.
France opened an inquiry Friday into the death of Gilles Jacquier, a journalist for France 2 television, who was killed in Syria on Wednesday. Jacquier was under government escort in the restive city of Homs when his convoy was hit by artillery.
Remains exhumed this month in the Ivory Coast do not belong to a missing French-Canadian journalist, a family lawyer said Thursday. Guy-André Kieffer was investigating corruption in the cocoa industry when he disappeared in Abidjan in 2004.
Papers look at the death of the French journalist Gilles Jacquier in Homs in Syria. There's also coverage of the death of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan in Tehran. As well reports on Haiti, two years on from the quake. Also, power napping in the office. That's the focus for this Thursday 12th January 2012.
Papers report on the death of France 2 television journalist Gilles Jacquier in Homs in Syria. They also look at a new study showing that the French work "six weeks less per year than the Germans". Other stories include a workers' protest at Père Lachaise cemetery, and the viability of France's nuclear industry. That's the focus for this Thursday 12th January 2012.
Turkey has been touted as a model for the Arab Spring's fledgling democracies. Yet Turkish journalists, publishers, academics and human rights activists say they are being arrested and put on trial on charges of terrorism. They say the government has a simple message for Turks: reveal information that compromises our party, and risk being neutralised.
Radioactivity may not be visible to the human eye, but TV cameras have been let into the Fukushima no man's land for the first time. We also take a look at the little-known plight of Cambodia's Cham Muslims, who were nearly exterminated under the Khmer Rouge regime. Finally, we head to the Chinese park that is said to have inspired the majestic setting of the blockbuster film "Avatar".
Marc Perelman interviews Richard Yung, Senator with the French Socialist Party; and Samuel Laufer, International Secretary of the UMP’s Youth Movement.
International journalists who had been held in Tripoli's Rixos Hotel for five days by armed men loyal to Muammar Gaddafi were freed Wednesday afternoon. The journalists were evacuated by the Red Cross to another hotel in the city.
The phone hacking row continues to engulf British politics - Monday's newspapers ask just how deep police corruption ran, after the resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson, and start to openly ask if this could bring down David Cameron. In other news, we take a look at Venezuela - does Hugo Chavez have a real successor, and can Chavismo survive without him?
