France24.com’s editor-in-chief responds to scathing criticism from English journalists that the French press is too squeamish when it comes to covering the personal affairs of their public figures.
Referring to their behaviour at French President François Hollande’s press conference on Wednesday, the "Daily Mail", a British tabloid, called France’s journalists “a salon of oyster-munchers, the powdered, poodling, truth-smothering trusties of polite Parisian opinion”. The "Daily Telegraph" wondered, meanwhile, if the French press had gone “mad”.
Indeed, in England, France’s reporters seem to be on trial for their incorrigible softness when it comes to the personal affairs of public figures. Why didn’t they harass the president for details about his love life, Britain is asking?
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