14.6.06

Serge July, the CEO and founder [with existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre, in 1973] of the financially struggling French daily Liberation, unwillingly resigned today under pressure from the paper's principal stockholder, Edouard de Rothschild.
Le Monde/Editor's World 13.Jun.06
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Florence Aubenas was working for Liberation in Iraq when she was abducted.
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The estimable Nidra Poller in the estimable Front Page Magazine on Aubenas, and hypocrisy, of a kind.