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...paper flirted briefly with break-even in 2007 and it's trying to find a way to go post-ideological, sort of. The Net, conferences, French open-shirted philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy shilling with advertisers - the new Libé will try almost anything. Joffrin even invited Carla Bruni, wife of France's rightist President Nicolas Sarkozy, to serve as celebrity editor for a day, but that was a step too far and Joffrin was forced to rescind the invitation amid howls of protest from employees. "If all we're doing is telling readers...
Berlusconi allies might have other reasons to be bitter with Bruni, who took a public swipe at the Italian Prime Minister in November. At that time, Berlusconi had cracked an offensive joke just after Barack Obama's election victory, saying the incoming American President was "young, handsome and well-tanned." Bruni told one reporter the following day that she was "glad to be French." (See Berluscon's worst gaffes...
...married Sarkozy but kept her Italian citizenship. "I'm Italo-French," she said. "I would have had to ask to renounce my Italian nationality, which of course I wouldn't want to do." Along with performances of several songs and inside secrets about life with the French President, Bruni's charm offensive on Italian TV looked like it might woo her native country. But it lasted less than 24 hours. The next evening, Striscia della Notizia, a hugely popular prime-time gotcha journalism show, dug up the video from Bruni's Nov. 18 appearance on the David Letterman Show...
...assuming Bruni holds on to her Italian passport, she may want to look for an Italian PR firm...
...pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni in London...