France: Courrier international poster about Sarkozy refused by public transport service
Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on February 25, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Métrobus, the advertising division of French public transport service RATP, refused to display posters of the cover of Courrier international’s latest issue, which headlined something along the lines of “View from Madrid: Sarkozy, this big sick guy.”
Is this another case of Sarkozy-related censorship, as claimed by the Society of Journalists?
The RATP said to the Agence France-Presse that “we have specific rules tied to our public service mission, and as such we must respect a strict neutrality.”
The weekly’s headline was a translation of a headline from Spanish daily El Pais.
According to Courrier international director Philippe Thureau-Dangin, the magazine offered to modify the headline so it couldn’t be potentially considered as defamatory.
“My new proposals, which were absolutely not defamatory, were rejected by Métrobus as being partisan,” said Thureau-Dangin. “This is in the order of political censorship if we can’t criticize the government,” he said, mentioning that if the headline were about US President Bush it wouldn’t have posed any problems.
Source: Yahoo News (AFP)
Is this another case of Sarkozy-related censorship, as claimed by the Society of Journalists?
The RATP said to the Agence France-Presse that “we have specific rules tied to our public service mission, and as such we must respect a strict neutrality.”
The weekly’s headline was a translation of a headline from Spanish daily El Pais.
According to Courrier international director Philippe Thureau-Dangin, the magazine offered to modify the headline so it couldn’t be potentially considered as defamatory.
“My new proposals, which were absolutely not defamatory, were rejected by Métrobus as being partisan,” said Thureau-Dangin. “This is in the order of political censorship if we can’t criticize the government,” he said, mentioning that if the headline were about US President Bush it wouldn’t have posed any problems.
Source: Yahoo News (AFP)
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