Press Organizations Announce Cannes Boycott

The Cannes Film Festival plans to restrict video coverage of its party (or fete, as they say over there), and so several major news outlets — Agence France-Presse, Reuters, the Associated Press and Getty TV — plan to forsake the Riviera this year.

Says AFP:

The boycott follows a decision by festival organisers to put severe restrictions on video news-gathering, limiting the agencies’ coverage of red carpet events and news conferences.

The new limitations are linked to a contract signed by the Cannes film festival with French broadcaster Canal Plus and pay-TV service Orange.

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