Miss Kolka

Sarkozy hasn't spoken publicly for almost a week. What is going on? Radio commentators I heard this morning wondered what could cause this - now especially in the time of social crisis in France - the transport strike enters its 6th day and no meeting is planned between the government and the unions until Wednesday. In the meanwhile Civil servents such as postal workers and teachers will join the mouvement on tuesday for 24hours - so lots of people the president could try to reason with and I am sure he has a very strong opinion on the matter. The Prime Minister and employment minister consol him of course for the next steps to take but I cannot but wonder how Mr. President manages to keep silent. Maybe he could teach me a lesson...

It wasn't such a good idea to make a little joke at the workplace on a slow newsday apparently... where I asked whether we did plan anything special for the "day without Sarkozy" in the media - a small organisation is calling for the media not to quote or talk about the president the 30th of November. I think the idea is funny - and I would certainly want to know if an american outlet would try to influence the american media not to talk about Bush for one day. With the French "hyper-president" it seems more appropriate however, him being everywhere all the time - I think one day I had 3 stories in a ten minute bulletin where Sarkozy had come to the rescue, Chad, angry fishermen, wrongly accused nurses.. "le Petit Nicolas" is there. So much so that even his prime minister complained about it off-camera (or what he thought was off-camera) the other day: "he is always ahead of me.. I was going to go but he beat me to it". The real question is (and probably the reason why such a joke seems to be quite a sensitive matter) - how is the president going to decide on the future of French television landscape, will the channel survive a re-arrengement of the french media treating international news?

The decision was due in the last days.. so what can one do appart from joking around?

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