. >> yeah, i mean, the american press used to be very deferential, too, with f.d.r., for instance. >> rose: j.f.k. >> and j.f.k. and i have a feeling that france is following america that sometimes it leads but it's following america 30 years late because there is a kind of complicity. partly the press is different. i mean, newspapers are more aligned to political views generally than they are in america. but there's a kind of complicity of elites, too. there's a journalistic elite to has access to figures and so on which is not common in journalism but is being policed better, i think, by editors in america. here it's considered part of a way you report. in other words, people will fight ideas but they don't delve into personalities and character and the tradition of investigative journalism here, particularly of main characters, is weaker. >> but i think it goes beyond that. there has been there france in the last few years a national campaign on television against sexual violence, denouncing willing couples women sold by their legal husband. suddenly you see an affair of sexual vio