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Sat 05 May 2009TV executive sacked for voicing concerns to politician
NO ONE accuses French president Nicolas Sarkozy of having been involved in the sacking of Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim.
But the affair has become a cause célèbre, and was the subject of a heated exchange in the National Assembly late on Thursday. It has again laid bare the Big Brother tactics of Mr Sarkozy's underlings, and the incestuous relationship between his government and TF1, France's leading, privately owned television station.
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