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Libération (affectionately known as Libé) is a French newspaper, founded in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in Paris, in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ...
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1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ...
The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
May 1968 poster: Be young and keep quiet In May 1968 a general insurrection broke out across France. ...
It is one of the three big quality national daily newspapers with a circulation of 158,100. It was also the first French daily newspaper to have a website.
The paper was initially run along non-hierarchical lines, with all staff – from the editor-in-chief to the janitor – receiving the same salary, but this later gave way to a normal set-up. In the early 1980s it began to take advertisements and allowed external bodies to have a stake in its financing, but continued to maintain a left-of-centre editorial stance. A hierarchy (in Greek hieros = sacred, arkho = rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things. ...
Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
Libération has a decidedly self-described progressive editorial line, generally supportive of causes such as anti-racism, feminism, workers' rights. According to co-founder and current director Serge July [1] (http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=148267), Libé is a militant newspaper which, however, does not support any particular political party, acts as a counter-power, and generally has bad relations with both left-wing and right-wing administrations. According to a deputy editor of Libé, Jean-Michel Helwig, Libération, though not affiliated with any political party is, from its 1968 origin, naturally left-wing.[2] (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jatteau/tpe/interviews.htm) However, Libé's opinion pages (rebonds) publish views from many political standpoints. Progressivism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...
In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...
Libé is known for its sometimes alternative points of views on cultural and social events. For instance, in addition to reports about crimes and other events, it also chronicles daily criminal trials, bringing in a more human vision of petty criminals. As Serge July puts it [3] (http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/FRANCE/COM/july/july.html), "the equation of Libération consisted in combining counter-culture and political radicalism". Critics contend, however, that this radicalism has largely receded since the 1970s and that Libé is no longer a truly left-wing newspaper [4] (http://www.technikart.com/article.php3?id_article=359).
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Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ...
Le Figaro is one of the leading French morning daily newspapers. ...
External link - Libération's WWW site (http://www.liberation.fr)
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