French gossip about to break?

An interesting piece from Follow the Media arrived in my email box this morning.

Whilst we in this country have been concerning ourselves with the suppresion of information from MP'S,French journalists may be about to commence a battle with the new regime of Nicholas Sarkozy.

During the recent election campaign there was a great deal of rumour abouit the whereabouts of Sarkozy's wife Cecilia.


According to Philip Stone

he is very sensitive to media reports about his private
life, especially his marriage – it seems to be a very “French” marriage -- and
there are already signs that his buddies who now own many French newspapers do
not wish to offend by having their media report “Sarko’s” personal
embarrassments

. and

since journalists for the most part are somewhat left of
Sarkozy’s politics, while the newspaper ownership is probably right of his
politics, it means that the battle lines are drawn, and the journalists say that
censorship attempts will fail -- the banned stories will just show up
elsewhere.

Which they have done including

Journal du Dimanche discovered via some neat
investigation of looking at the election rolls that Mrs. Sarkozy’s signature was
absent next to her name, meaning she did not vote in the second and
deciding round of elections that propelled her husband to power. But that story
never saw the light of day in the newspaper.

The rumours are that those in positions of influence and power excerted some undue pressure on the publication to supress the story.Of course the French guard the privacy of its celebs and polititians to a greater degree that we do over here.However the ghosts of this very French marriage may soon be able to spill