Resistance

It's a big dilemna. In France last week on the first channel (not public) happened this : our well known actress Sophie Marceau was invited at the evening news to promote her lastest movie about the Resistance. A few minutes before was on the same TV set the political right extreem general secretary interviewed. Learning that Sophie Marceau at the make up room left before going live on TV. Two things : first, this man was there because this week-end in France was the first round of voting for the town council. As a representative of a political party and because France is a republic he has the right to talk about his ideas. Don't forget that in 2002 the same man arrived second at the presidential election and a lot of Frenches were scared and voted massively for Jacques Chirac. Second, we know that Sophie Marceau is not scared to engage herself for causes to defend people who need to. Of course we are not sure if she would have had the same reaction (probably) if she was not on promotion for a movie about the Resistance but strangely no one thought about it at the TV channel, not from the managers to the trainees (not sure they have the right to speak). But we still can be agree with the decision of the actress because promoting such a movie can be non-sense right after the interview of the man who was condemned a few days ago for having said that the german occupation during second world war "was not particularly inhuman" and having given (as from the judges of the 17e chamber of correctional tribunal of Paris) "a positive image of the Gestapo, erecting it as a protective authority of the french population, negating crimes it was recognized of". The manager of the channel explained that It was the right of the medias to allow equal talking time to everyone and why should he make a difference between both sides and he was very happy to have both actress and general secretary on the set. This is exactly the point why It is such a mess today because when impartiality was before accepted (and It made the success of this channel) It looks like that my compatriots would like to see a change and ask the medias to take position and defend ideas, just like Sophie Marceau did. Thank you to her.