Amazingly bad idea department

France Bans 'Citizen Journalists' From Reporting on Violence
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned.
Via mediabistro.

In other news, France has agreed to allow Abu Dhabi to attach the Louvre’s name to a new museum for $520 million. "For France the agreement signals a new willingness to exploit its culture for political and economic ends." From the New York Times.