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revolution_fr2009-07-11 10:10 am
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Gasp - they've guillotined Hermione?
I love this - it has to be the most ludicrous attempt to shoehorn last week's Harry Potter premiere into every damn news* article they could think of. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5775077/Thousands-beheaded-in-French-Revolution-named-online.html
(*or rather, PR generated press-release about a website launch, basically a free advert, but the sort of thing that passes for 'news' nowadays, because journalists are too lazy to look for the real stuff. And it isn't even 'new' - the lists were reprinted in the French press in 1989 (happy anniversary!) and have been an online phenomenon in France for a couple of years now).
(*or rather, PR generated press-release about a website launch, basically a free advert, but the sort of thing that passes for 'news' nowadays, because journalists are too lazy to look for the real stuff. And it isn't even 'new' - the lists were reprinted in the French press in 1989 (happy anniversary!) and have been an online phenomenon in France for a couple of years now).