snubwatch

Uproar in France, where the New Yorker’s (perfectly ordinary) collection of head shots of world leaders in this week’s issue does not contain a photo of Nicolas Sarkozy. Incredibly, this seems to have been Sarkozy’s idea. The photographer was taking pics at the UN general assembly this autumn. Sarko waved him away, proclaiming — I have a very hard time believing this, but so far nobody has denied it — “I hate photos!”

A fuss in Poland about a European Union video clip commemorating the end of the Cold War. Poland is mentioned at the beginning — Jaruzelski announcing martial law in 1981 — and that’s pretty much the end of that. No clips of Solidarnosc, no Pope. When things really start to hop in 1989, it’s portrayed as basically a Berlin thing.

Barack Obama publishes an op-ed in 31 newspapers and magazines around the world. None are Canadian.