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To: lurqer who wrote (33904)	12/31/2003 1:36:40 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Re. The sycophant media. I always like to look with a different angle. French press critic sacked Alain Hertoghe wrote a book accusing the French press of not being objective in its coverage of the war in Iraq. In response, his newspaper sacked him. The book, La Guerre à Outrances (The War of Outrages), criticises French reporting for continually predicting that the war would end badly for the US-led coalition. "Readers can't understand why the Americans won the war," Hertoghe said in a telephone interview. "The French press wasn't neutral." The book, published in October, claims that French reporters were more patriotic than journalistic, and that what they wrote amounted to disinformation. It examines daily coverage by five leading dailies, including Hertoghe's own employer La Croix, in the three weeks from the first strikes on Baghdad on March 20 to April 9, when Saddam Hussein's regime fell. Hertoghe, a 44-year-old Belgian, said reporters reflected emotions in France more than realities on the battlefield, becoming caught up in France's role in leading opposition to the war at the United Nations. Hertoghe was deputy editor-in-chief of La Croix's online version during the Iraq war. The other papers his book examines are the independent Le Monde, the conservative Le Figaro, the leftwing Libération, and the regional daily Ouest-France. Hertoghe was sacked on December 15 for a "loss of confidence" following the publication of his book. La Croix cited four points, including damaging the newspaper's reputation, Hertoghe said. La Croix refused to comment. Ronald Blunden, the editorial director of Hertoghe's publishers, Calmann-Levy, said there had been a "deafening silence" about the book in France, although there had been rave reviews in Belgium. guardian.co.uk lurqer