“ I would much prefer to live with the intrusive, trivializing British tabloids rather than with the deferential, hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, look-the-other-way attitude of much of the French press. Far better to have a nasty, abusive but potentially open press than a civilized media, constrained by laws, that has forgotten the role of independent journalism and has become the pliant creature of those in power.
