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...help them contract for major advertising. Moreover, under Giscard, a bewildering catalogue of government subsidies for such publishing costs as paper, telephone and telex communications has drawn financially pressed newspapers into an ever closer dependency on the Palace. Says Roger Fressoz, editor of the outspoken satiric weekly Le Canard Enchaîné (circ. 640,000): "Everything was put in place so that the major media. . . are controlled by the President's men, who regulate carefully and severely all the wheels, leaving nothing to chance...
...disposal of the presidential candidates, who can appropriate as much or as little of them as they please. They have even been known to dip into the enemy camp for supplies. Still, this year's platforms, hammered out with diligence and zeal, are an eloquent refutation of the canard that parties in America do not stand for anything. They stand for plenty - and they stand apart...
Founded in 1915 "to kill with ridicule those who profess the virtue of war," the left-leaning Canard (circ. 550,000) has skewered generations of French leaders with needle wit and wicked cartoons...
...closed down during World War II, but before and after, during the hapless Third and the revolving-door Fourth Republic, stirred its editors to punishing glee. Le Canard also thrives on serious controversy. Says Chief Editor Roger Fressoz (pen name: Andre Ribaud): "We began doing more investigative reporting with the Algerian War, when French citizens began to ask for more information...
This decade Le Canard has been more enterprising. It revealed that the Gaullist resistance hero Jacques Chaban-Delmas had used legal loopholes to avoid paying income tax for three years, virtually killing his bid for the presidency in 1974. The Duck also unearthed some questionable financial dealings by the murdered Prince Jean de Broglie, a man with close ties to the Giscard administration, and printed the income tax dossiers of both Giscard and Aviation Tycoon Marcel Dassault. The government paid Le Canard a bumbling tribute one night when its agents were discovered in the paper's offices trying...