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Center or le pen? (April 2017)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
France 2 have a live from a reporter on a motorbike following Macron to the Louvre.
DA
davidhorman
France 2 have a live from a reporter on a motorbike following Macron to the Louvre.


I can't help thinking of two sci-fi quotes:

Quote:
"Your [engineers] were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."


Quote:
"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing."
WW
WW Update
France 2 have a live from a reporter on a motorbike following Macron to the Louvre.


Don't they always follow the President-Elect's motorcade? I seem to remember seeing it way back in 2002.
LL
London Lite Founding member
From what I could see of some of the broadcasting mopeds had antennas which were following him. The F2 reporter was still broadcasting with his crash helmet on when they arrived.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Crash helmet man's live.
BR
Brekkie
I know exit polls haven't exactly had a great record of late but the French election format doesn't exactly make for great TV - it's pretty much all over before it begins.
LL
London Lite Founding member
I know exit polls haven't exactly had a great record of late but the French election format doesn't exactly make for great TV - it's pretty much all over before it begins.


M6 was the most sensible for doing an extended edition of their 19.45 bulletin, which was an hour long which included the poll result and that was it.
RK
Rkolsen
I don't follow French elections often but is it normal practice for the winner of whatever party to give an address at The Louvre?
NJ
news junkie
I don't follow French elections often but is it normal practice for the winner of whatever party to give an address at The Louvre?


From what Sky News were saying last night, the candidates decide where they will celebrate. Macron chose the Louvre whereas Le Pen chose somewhere outside of Paris, I can't quite remember where.
DV
DVB Cornwall
I believe the leader after the first round gets first dibs on venue if there's a conflict. Macron's choice was cleverly iconic so that he had the wonderful walk element to lap up and drive the crowd into overdrive before he made his speech on stage.
AL
alexhb01
Just had a look at France 2's Election coverage studio and its was clearly heavily inspired by the BBC especially with the VR Zone.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Do you get the feeling that the BBC News are overdoing the French election story.

On BBC News we've got Huw Edwards live from Paris with the French election as the top story, on ITV are had Mary on the campaign trail with the General Election as the top story.

To me it seems like they've sent him out there so they are going to use him, in any other circumstance it'd be down to second on the agenda by now.

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