Nicolas Sarkozy défend sa politique sur TF1

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Nicolas Sarkozy était l'invité, lundi 25 janvier, du journal de 20 heures de TF1 où il a été brièvement interviewé par la journaliste Laurence Ferrari. Il a ensuite répondu aux questions d'un panel de onze Français dans une émission animée par Jean-Pierre Pernaut. Au cours de cette soirée, plusieurs thématiques ont été abordées.
Chômage. Le président a annoncé un reflux du chômage "dès cette année". Selon lui, la France a "résisté plutôt mieux que les autres, puisque le chômage a doublé aux Etats-Unis, doublé en Espagne, augmenté de 60 % au Royaume-Uni. Un seul pays a fait mieux que nous en la matière, c'est l'Allemagne", a-t-il souligné. "Nous, on a quand même pris 450 000 chômeurs en plus" mais "c'est en train de se retourner", a-t-il affirmé.
Retraites. "Les décisions que nous aurons à prendre concerneront tout le monde", salariés du privé et agents publics, a affirmé Nicolas Sarkozy. Après avoir rappelé que la réforme de 1993 n'avait concerné que le secteur privé, celle de 2003, les fonctionnaires et celle de 2007, les bénéficiaires des régimes spéciaux, il a confirmé que, "avant la fin de l'année, nous aurons pris les décisions qu'il faut". Le chef de l'Etat a promis de ne pas revenir sur le régime par répartition et de ne pas réduire les pensions mais il a, en revanche, dit travailler sur la perspective d'un allongement de la durée de cotisation et sur la question de la pénibilité du travail. Il a souhaité "qu'il y ait le consensus le plus large possible", et estimé que c'était son "devoir" de discuter avec la première secrétaire du PS, Martine Aubry, qui a évoqué un départ à la retraite à "61, 62 ans".

Renault. Le président a affirmé que les Clio 4 destinées à être vendues en France seraient produites dans l'usine de Flins (Yvelines) et que ce modèle ne serait donc pas fariqué entièrement en Turquie. "La stratégie de Renault ces dix dernières années, je ne l'accepte pas", a-t-il déclaré. Interpellé sur une éventuelle interdiction des délocalisations, le chef de l'Etat a répondu que "ce n'est pas une question d'interdire". "Si on veut vendre des voitures à la Chine, naturellement il faudra construire des voitures en Chine", a-t-il poursuivi, "mais je n'accepte pas que des voitures qui sont vendues en France soient construites à l'étranger".
Henri Proglio ne pourra cumuler ses fonctions de président non exécutif de Veolia avec son poste de PDG d'EDF que pendant "quelques mois", afin d'assurer une transition. "Quand la transition sera achevée il se dévouera à 100 % à ses fonctions à EDF", a-t-il déclaré. Il a cependant défendu les salaires élevés des grands patrons à la condition qu'ils assument leurs erreurs : "Je préfère un bon patron bien payé qu'un mauvais mal payé [...]. Ce qui me choque, c'est le gros salaire qui ne correspond pas à une grosse responsabilité, c'est ceux qui sont contents quand tout va bien de ramasser l'argent et, quand ça va mal, il n'y a plus personne pour les malus", a-t-il ajouté.

Fonction publique. Nicolas Sarkozy s'est déclaré "prêt à envisager la titularisation progressive des contractuels" dans la fonction publique, dont il juge la situation "profondément anormale". "L'Etat ne peut pas dire aux entreprises : faites des CDI, contrats à durée indéterminée, plutôt que des CDD, contrats à durée déterminée, et proposer des contractuels", a-t-il affirmé. Il s'est également déclaré très favorable à "la diversification des voies d'accès à la fonction publique", qui se fait aujourd'hui sur concours.
Clandestins débarqués en Corse. "Je le dis très simplement, nous soignons ces personnes, nous les nourrissons, nous les réconfortons, (...) et nous les raccompagnerons chez eux", a affirmé le chef de l'Etat. "Parce que si nous ne faisons pas ça, alors les esclavagistes du monde entier et les réseaux criminels du monde entier tireront la conclusion qu'on peut faire débarquer n'importe comment des pauvres gens sur les plages de France. Le message est très clair", a-t-il expliqué.
Afghanistan. Le chef de l'Etat et des armées exclut d'envoyer "de nouveaux soldats combattants". A trois jours de la conférence de Londres sur l'Afghanistan, il a cependant déclaré que "si on a besoin de davantage de gens pour former (l'armée afghane), encadrer la police, réaliser des travaux de génie civil, aider la population ou à l'afghanistation, pourquoi pas". Interrogé sur les journalistes français otages en Afghanistan, il a affirmé qu'ils "sont en vie, en bonne santé, mais la situation est extrêmement difficile et extrêmement périlleuse". Il "sera temps une fois qu'on les aura fait revenir dans leurs familles de voir ce qui s'est passé, et pourquoi ils se sont conduits comme cela", a poursuivi le président de la République.
Taxe carbone. Le président a répété qu'il se battrait pour l'instauration d'une taxe carbone "aux frontières de l'Europe", une question qui est loin de faire l'unanimité parmi les 27. "On ne va pas imposer à nos industriels une taxe carbone et importer en France des produits fabriqués dans des pays où ils ne font rien pour protéger l'environnement", a-t-il expliqué.

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O’Brien Undone by His Media-Hopping Fans

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Conan O’Brien made a triumphant exit from NBC Friday night, accompanied by one of the most impressive outpourings of support by younger viewers that any late-night host had ever seen — and Mr. O’Brien was effusive in his thanks for their backing.
But he might have said: Where were you when I needed you?

In the tumult that surrounded NBC’s late-night shake-up last week, one thing was certain: If even a small fraction of the additional younger viewers who flocked to Mr. O’Brien’s show last week had turned up regularly in his earlier ratings results, he would almost surely still be hosting “The Tonight Show.”

Instead, for most of this past fall, Mr. O’Brien struggled to command the young viewers he needed to counter a falloff in overall audience numbers.

While he began to drop behind his chief late-night competitor, David Letterman on CBS, among total viewers, it was more alarming to NBC that Mr. O’Brien was not consistently beating Mr. Letterman in several important advertising-sales demographic groups — viewers 18 to 49 and 25 to 54. (He did beat Mr. Letterman virtually all the time in the 18-to-34 group.)

But to NBC’s surprise and disappointment, Mr. O’Brien fell behind his predecessor, Jay Leno, even among those 18-to-34 viewers, the group expected to be his core constituency. (From his start in June through the end of 2009, Mr. O’Brien averaged 716,000 viewers in that age group, down from the 759,000 Mr. Leno averaged the previous six months.)

Several television researchers said in interviews that this outcome might have been easily predicted, not because Mr. O’Brien does not appeal to younger viewers — he clearly does, as evidenced by the large numbers he attracted for his closing shows — but because regularly assembling those young adult viewers in significant numbers in the late-night hours has become a daunting, if not impossible, task.

“The 18-to-34 group is so difficult to attract and the lower half, 18 to 25, is the hardest of all,” said Jack MacKenzie, the president of the millennial strategy program for the research firm Frank N. Magid Associates.

Compounding the problem, said a senior research executive for another company, was the fact that Mr. O’Brien was especially appealing to young men. “And that group doesn’t watch television very regularly,” said the executive, who asked not to be named because his business competes with NBC.

Instead of watching Mr. O’Brien most nights, Mr. MacKenzie said, those young viewers have been watching everything from similar shows like “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, to cartoons on the “Adult Swim” franchise on the Cartoon Network, and the ever-present array of sports and sports news on ESPN and its sister channels.

In comparison with the 719,000 viewers in the 18-to-34 group that Mr. O’Brien had been averaging, Stephen Colbert on his “Colbert Report,” in the same six- month period in 2009, averaged 746,000 viewers ages 18 to 34. The cartoons on “Adult Swim” — mostly “Family Guy” and “Robot Chicken” — averaged 619,000 of those viewers. ESPN from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., with varied programs that included both live sports events and editions of the highlights show “Sports Center,” averaged 614,000 viewers in that group.

And dozens of other cable channels took other slices of the under 35 viewers.

“What you’ve seen in recent years is increased spending by all these cable channels for original programming,” Mr. MacKenzie said. “And besides having a double revenue stream of subscription fees and advertising, the cable channels have the luxury of targeting specific audiences. Broadcasters don’t.”

Fans of sports, for example, were watching ESPN many nights instead of Mr. O’Brien; and cartoon lovers were hooked on “Adult Swim.”

But even all the competition on cable did not represent the total distraction for young viewers that Mr. O’Brien had to contend with. The senior research executive pointed to outside attractions like video games that vie for the attention of young, especially male, viewers. And CBS executives have in the past identified the growing tendency of owners of digital video recorders to use the time after late local newscasts to play back programs recorded earlier that night or on previous nights.

A spokeswoman for Nielsen Media Research pointed to a study the company released last year that cited the peak hours for DVR playback. The late-night hours showed the highest percentage of playback outside the prime-time hours, with about 7.6 percent of playback taking place from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m.

As an executive from one of NBC’s rival networks put it: “Conan didn’t just have to worry about Letterman; he had to worry about ‘House.’ People are playing back episodes of shows like ‘House’ in late night.”

Add to all the other issues the fact that Mr. O’Brien’s young fans did not really have to watch television to see him. His shows were made available later on Web sites like Hulu. And his best comedy bits would frequently be posted on other sites — and passed around by fans — shortly after they appeared.

Mr. MacKenzie added that NBC did Mr. O’Brien no favor by moving Mr. Leno to the 10 p.m. hour this fall. “That meant there was a show very similar in style to his on the air before him,” he said.

In his run on “The Tonight Show,” Mr. Leno managed to attract the largest audiences in virtually every age group, though his ratings too showed signs of falling off in his later years on the show. But his was always the first show of the late-night talk variety on NBC each night, Mr. MacKenzie.

That will happen again when Mr. Leno returns to “The Tonight Show” on March 1. But Mr. MacKenzie had some words of caution for NBC.

“A generational switch is coming,” he said. “The baby boomer audience that has mostly been the Leno audience is going out. The Conan audience is becoming more influential — even if they aren’t watching television the same way the previous generation did.”

Beyonce, Madonna Join Haiti Telethon

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AP) Beyonce and Madonna have been added as performers to Friday's multi-network "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, and Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and former President Bill Clinton are among the participants.

A statement released Thursday said Beyonce would perform from London, and Madonna from New York City. The list of musical performers already includes such heavyweights as Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake and Keith Urban.

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"It's a big world out there, and we all have a lot of responsibility to look out for people who can't look out for themselves," telethon organizer George Clooney said in an MTV interview that aired Thursday night. "So what we can do is first and foremost, raise money. Period. That's it ...

"If I thought we could all pick up shovels and go in there and help without being in the way, I think a lot of people would do that."

An estimated 200,000 people were killed after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti last week, devastating the nation.

The two-hour telethon will be shown on all the major networks and a host of other channels. It will be broadcast from New York, London, Los Angeles and Haiti.

People can begin donating even before the start of the 8 p.m. EST concert via phone and text. Viewers can also download musical performances from the show via iTunes for 99 cents. Those profits will also be donated to Haiti relief.

Also Thursday, DiCaprio announced he was donating $1 million to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, the relief effort led by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and one of the organizations benefiting from the telethon.

General Puts Up a Fight in Sri Lanka’s Election

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — When President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced late last year that he would move the presidential election up by two years and seek a fresh mandate from Sri Lanka’s war-weary electorate, he seemed like a shoo-in.

Having vanquished the fearsome Tamil Tiger insurgency in May with a no-holds-barred assault on its last stronghold, Mr. Rajapaksa enjoyed widespread adulation. The opposition parties were fractured and in disarray. No one, it seemed, could match the president’s popularity, despite deep unease about what seemed to be the increasing concentration of power in the hands of his family and rising corruption.

But to near-universal surprise, an alphabet soup of political parties has rallied around the retired general who led Sri Lanka’s army to victory against the Tamil Tigers, Sarath Fonseka.

On Tuesday, voters here will go to the polls in what has been one of the most bitterly contested elections in Sri Lankan history. The winner will preside over the reconstruction and reconciliation of a country torn apart by more than a quarter-century of ethnic conflict.

Mr. Rajapaksa has argued that he delivered on his election promise, made in 2005, to end the war, and that he can be relied upon to mend the country. But his popularity has waned in the months since the end of the war as Sri Lankans have grown impatient for prosperity. Mr. Rajapaksa has also given powerful positions in the government to relatives, rankling many Sri Lankans.

“Sri Lanka has always been a democracy,” said Waskadwa Dhammarana, a Buddhist monk who supported the president in 2005 but is now planning to vote for General Fonseka. “I am against corruption, nepotism and the antidemocratic attitude prevalent in the Rajapaksa regime.”

General Fonseka has pledged to reduce the powers of the presidency and give more authority to Parliament, a cherished goal of many parties in the fractious coalition backing him. But he is untested as a political leader, and many question his ability to lead beyond the regimented sphere of the military.

Indeed, the alliance behind General Fonseka’s candidacy is a grudging coalition that includes more than one set of archenemies. It includes hard-line Marxists and laissez-faire capitalists, hard-core nationalists who argue that minorities should submit to majority rule as well as the main Tamil and Muslim parties.

“The opposition parties have come together with the single purpose of effecting regime change,” said Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Center for Policy Alternatives, a research and advocacy institute here. “Fonseka is the instrument of that change.”

The campaign has unfolded in a tense but hopeful nation that seeks to put its violent past to rest. The Tamil Tigers took up arms to defend the Tamil minority from government discrimination, but eventually became a ruthless insurgency best known for its use of child soldiers and suicide bombers.

Violence has punctuated the campaign. Election monitors have counted more than 100 episodes of violence involving firearms. At least five people have been killed.

General Fonseka has struggled to find his footing as a politician. In speeches his clipped delivery is that of a man accustomed to giving orders, not asking for votes.

“The country in the future will be free of corruption,” he commanded from the stage at a rally in the southern coastal town of Kalutara. “Democracy will be restored. Your children will have a bright future.”

For many of the general’s supporters, the concern is more a matter of ousting Mr. Rajapaksa.

“He has constructed a power center that is controlled only by his family,” said Japudaya Nagoda Kanutara, a 47-year-old supermarket clerk who voted for Mr. Rajapaksa in 2005. “At that time we only wanted to end the war, but after that sacrifice we feel we are getting nothing. Sri Lanka needs a change.”

Mr. Rajapaksa, a flesh-pressing politician whose flashy rallies draw huge crowds, has found himself on the defensive, and his campaign has pulled out all the stops. His grinning face beams down from billboards and posters all across the country. The government has even added his portrait to a new 1,000-rupee note.

Critics have accused him of using state resources, like helicopters to hop around the teardrop-shaped island, to wage his campaign, though his spokesman denied this. State-controlled media have heavily favored him.

Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group, said in a report that the two main state-owned television channels devoted 98.5 percent of their news coverage to Mr. Rajapaksa.

Mr. Rajapaksa’s rallies have been packed with fervent supporters who venerate him as a bringer of peace.

“He ended the war,” said A. D. R. Premarathna, who owns a small printing shop. “Now we can live without fear.”

Mr. Premarathna waited for five hours in the baking sun with his wife and children to secure a spot in the front row of Mr. Rajapaksa’s rally in Kalutara. “I know he will deliver on his promise to bring prosperity for my children,” he said.

One issued that has hardly figured in the election campaign is the question of human rights violations that may have been committed by the military in the fight against the Tigers. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were trapped on a small stretch of beach where they were held hostage as human shields by the ragged remains of the insurgency’s leadership.

The United Nations counted 7,000 dead in the first phase of the final battle, but no reliable count exists for the last, deadliest weeks of the fighting. Sri Lanka has resisted calls for an international war crimes investigation. After the war, about 300,000 Tamils who had been trapped with the Tigers were detained in squalid, closed camps.

No matter who wins, the competitiveness of the election has already had a profound effect on Sri Lanka, said Rukshana Nanayakkara, deputy executive director of Transparency International Sri Lanka, an anticorruption advocacy organization. The emergence of a credible opposition candidate pushed the government to speed the release of displaced Tamils held in camps, and ease restrictions on journalists, he said.

“This was an opportunity through the campaign to challenge the government,” he said. “Regardless of who wins, that has been a very good thing.”