An American Reporter in Paris  cbs-franceUS media have always
seemed to have an appetite for reporting certain news from
France, so recent revelations that President Francois Hollande
has been romantically linked with an actress was bound to make
the news. What’s odd is how some US reporters want to suggest
that the French care about this as much as they do.   On the CBS
Evening News (1/14/14), anchor Scott Pelley explained that
Hollande “sidestepped a simple question” about whether France’s
“first lady” was Hollande’s girlfriend Valerie Trierweiler  or
actress Julie Gayet. What Hollande did was insist that his
personal affairs should be private.   But correspondent Mark
Whitaker says that’s not cutting it:   The saga has tested the
French myth that interest in politicians stops at the bedroom
door, says American living in Paris Danielle Grall.  CBS then
shows Grall saying this: “The elite French, the educated
French–it’s totally humiliating for them. The feel like they’re
living in Italy! And it’s not very f