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You may not know that but France is electing a new president next week end. It's a pretty important time for the country after 12 years of Chirac, we'll finally get a young one. The campaign is very hard in France and I have a great example of the importance of people filming with their cellphones and putting videos on Youtube.

As it's in French, I'll explain and translate everything before you can watch it... Alain Duhamel is a very famous and important political journalist in France and also the director of the politic section of the first television group. During the campaign, he has been invited in a University in Paris to give a conference to some students in political sciences. Students could ask question, and the whole conference wasn't supposed to be filmed. At one point, a student asks to Duhamel what he thinks of one of the candidates, and the journalist answer that he likes him (well, the answer is longer than that and that's what it meant) but also that he would vote for him.

A student was filming with his cellphone and put that online :

The journalist has been suspended the day after, for the whole time of the campaign.

I think this is a good example of what people would never get exposed to, and which finally reach them thanks to random people and not the "normal" media.