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It sounded incredible, but since it was in the “New York Times” it had to be correct somehow: On Thursday night of last week, wrote Ben Smith, the newspaper’s media editor, President Emmanuel Macron picked up the phone on his golden office in the Elysee Palace. to complain to him. In Smith’s article, titled “The President Against the American Media,” it sounded like a spontaneous phone call born of anger and rage, an authoritarian rebuke from far away Paris.
It was amazing not only that Emmanuel Macron got carried away by something like that, but he even had time to reprimand the American press during one of the most tense phases of his tenure. Across France, the highest level of terrorism alarms still prevail after three attacks in just five weeks. And the number of people infected by Covid 19 has risen again so the French president ordered a strict closure for the whole country, as in the spring.
