Nicolas Sarkozy - Ségoulène Royal (defeated)

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It was recently brought to my attention that anyone involved in Arts & Culture, at least where the French are concerned, should be reading Libération, a well known Socialist and anti-American (to my point of view) news journal. If as a person involved in the arts such as I, were to quote or even link to what some might consider to be a rather fascist-like political point of view found in such journals as Le Figaro or even Le Monde (as I've done above), it could be construed as "sleeping with the enemy" in an exagerated sort of way.

While I find this bit of information somewhat amusing, I do understand it in an odd sort of way having lived in France for many many years but not paying any particular attention to what journal I was reading. Faux pas perhaps, but I do find myself in a bit of a dilemma - not wanting to "offend" my French lecteurs but at the same time, not wanting to read a ... well, propagandish journal such as Libération. What to do? I guess nothing for the time being, now that Sarkozy has expressed re-kindling an old flame called America.