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PostSubject: Funny: Francois Hollande reduced to 'village idiot' by AFP photo controversy   Funny: Francois Hollande reduced to 'village idiot' by AFP photo controversy Icon_minitimeThu Sep 05, 2013 6:55 pm

It was supposed to be a routine press photo call. And in many ways it was.

Funny: Francois Hollande reduced to 'village idiot' by AFP photo controversy Art-353-hollande-300x0

But when French news agency Agence France Presse made the decision to retract an unflattering photo of the country's President, Francois Hollande, it only made the problem worse, drawing more attention to the photo and setting the rumour mill into overdrive.

It began when photographer Dennis Charlet took a photograph of Hollande visiting the Michelet school in Denain, northern France.

The photo was published, but a few hours later the agency - which reportedly gets almost half of its income from government contracts - ordered a mandatory kill on the photograph, citing "editorial problems".

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/francois-hollande-reduced-to-village-idiot-by-afp-photo-controversy-20130905-2t7ma.html#ixzz2e3tAQb9v
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