In France, a primetime lineup without the ads

– By Scott Sayare –
PARIS — Primetime television in the US is about advertising revenues. A 30-second spot during last year’s Super Bowl cost an average $2.7 million; last May, NBC announced a starting price of three million dollars for a spot during this year’s game.
But you’ll see nary a primetime ad on any of [...]

The indignance of a Socialist Party in its death throes: Even Obama goes unspared.

– By Scott Sayare –
PARIS — As the leaders of the free world clamber to salute and applaud Barack Obama’s historic election, one disgraced French politicienne remains defiant, and defiantly immodest.
“I inspired Barack Obama,” Ségolène Royale told Le Monde, claiming that Obama’s campaign message of unity had been lifted from her own campaign for the [...]