France's media has always had a cautious relationship with its political classes, with privacy laws and long tradition combining to keep politicans' private lives off the front pages. But since Nicolas Sarkozy became president in 2007, the frontier between public and private has blurred -- exemplified by recent rumours over the state of Sarkozy’s marriage to Carla Bruni, which spread across newspapers and websites all over Europe. The affair led to official police investigations, rumours of a conspiracy, and a vigorous debate over what the French media should -- and should not -- consider to be in the public interest. A natural-sound version of an AFPTV report