French Paper Critical of 'Sarcastic' British Press

Posted: 9/11/2012  |  By: Roy Greenslade | The Guardian

Have French newspapers been guilty of failing to treat the story of the Alpine murders with sufficient seriousness? Kim Willsher reports in The Guardian today that Paris-based papers have relegated the story to inside pages, regarding it as a "fait divers", a term used to describe a relatively trivial, miscellaneous news item.