Hollande photo row: Decision to kill picture 'an error'

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cenydd
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Hollande photo row: Decision to kill picture 'an error' Sept 5, 2013 10:59:30 GMT

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Post by cenydd on Sept 5, 2013 10:59:30 GMT

News agency Agence France-Presse has said it was wrong to withdraw an unflattering picture of French leader Francois Hollande after it was widely posted on social media sites.

The photograph was pulled for editorial reasons and not because AFP had come under pressure from the French presidency, it said.

Reuters news agency, which also killed the picture, has not reacted yet.

The photograph was taken during a visit at a school in northern France.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23968573

Not exactly a great picture, but being caught in an unflattering pose is part of what goes along with fame, let alone with political power. Seems like a very strange decision to try to withdraw such an image.

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