France: Unequal Time

One might think that Gaston Defferre, French Socialist candidate for President and the only man so far to challenge Charles de Gaulle in the next election, would be a prime TV news subject in his homeland. But when he be gan his campaign with a series of rallies in Bordeaux last month, not a glimpse of his face appeared on French video screens. Last week when a television interview with Defferre, shot by a West German network, was made available to France's state broadcasting monopoly, Radiodiffusion, Television Franchise, the film wound up...

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