Editing Libération (section)

===Second period (since 1981)===
After several crises, {{Lang|fr|Libération}} temporarily stopped being published in February 1981. It resumed publication on 13 May under a new format, with [[Serge July]] as new director.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Thody|author-link=Philip Thody|title=Le Franglais: Forbidden English, Forbidden American: Law, Politics and Language in Contemporary France: A Study in|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W56vAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA290|access-date=31 December 2014|date=2000|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4411-7760-5|page=290}}</ref>

Although {{Lang|fr|Libération}} is not affiliated with any political party, it has, from its theoretical origins in the May 1968 turmoil in France, a left-wing slant.<ref>[http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jatteau/tpe/interviews.htm Interviews with journalists from Libération] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050526075436/http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jatteau/tpe/interviews.htm |date=26 May 2005 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref> According to co-founder and former director Serge July, ''Libé'' was an activist newspaper that, however, does not support any particular political party, acts as a counter-power, and generally has bad relations with both left-wing and right-wing administrations. ''Libé''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> opinion pages (''rebonds'') publish views from many political standpoints. An example of their proclaimed independent, "counter-power" slant is when in 1993 {{Lang|fr|Libération}} leaked [[French Socialist Party|Socialist]] president [[François Mitterrand]]'s illegal wiretapping program.

{{Lang|fr|Libération}} is known for its sometimes alternative points of view on cultural and social events. For instance, in addition to reports about crimes and other events, it also chronicles daily criminal trials, bringing in a more human vision of petty criminals. As Serge July puts it, "the equation of {{Lang|fr|Libération}} consisted in combining counter-culture and political radicalism".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010511213202/http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/FRANCE/COM/july/july.html Interview with Serge July] (on official French government website) {{in lang|fr}}</ref> The editors' decision, in 2005, to support the [[Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe]] (TCE) was criticized by many of its readers, who later [[2005 French European Constitution referendum|decided to vote "no"]] to a treaty seen as too [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]], lacking social views deemed necessary to the solid foundation of a "European nation".

On 11 December 2010, {{Lang|fr|Libération}} started hosting a mirror of the [[WikiLeaks]] website, including the [[United States diplomatic cables leak|United States diplomatic cables]] and other document collections,<ref name="liberation_cablegate_mirror">{{cite web |title=Secret US Embassy Cables |work=Libération |date=4 January 2011 |url=http://wikileaks.liberation.fr/cablegate.html |access-date=11 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228233926/http://wikileaks.liberation.fr/cablegate.html |archive-date=28 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in solidarity with WikiLeaks, in order to prevent it from being "suffocated" by "governments and companies that were trying to block [WikiLeaks'] functioning without even a judicial decision".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/making-of/01012307421-liberation-abrite-wikileaks |title="Libération" abrite WikiLeaks |work=Libération |language=fr |date=11 December 2010 |quote=Nous avons choisi d'empêcher l'asphyxie de WikiLeaks à l'heure où des gouvernements et des entreprises cherchent à bloquer son fonctionnement sans même une décision de justice. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115003158/http://www.liberation.fr/making-of/01012307421-liberation-abrite-wikileaks |archive-date=15 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2015, {{Lang|fr|Libération}}, working with WikiLeaks, reported that the United States [[National Security Agency]] had been secretly spying on the telephone conversations of presidents [[Jacques Chirac]], [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] and [[François Hollande]] from at least 2006 through 2012.<ref name="wikilib">{{cite news |url=http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2015/06/23/chirac-sarkozy-et-hollande-trois-presidents-sur-ecoute_1335767 |title=WikiLeaks – Chirac, Sarkozy, et Hollande : trois présidents sur écoute |last1=Guiton |first1=Amaelle |last2=Léchenet |first2=Alexandre |last3=Manach |first3=Jean-Marc |last4=Assange |first4=Julian |author-link4=Julian Assange |newspaper=Libération |language=fr |date=23 June 2015 |access-date=24 June 2015 |archive-date=24 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624015443/http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2015/06/23/chirac-sarkozy-et-hollande-trois-presidents-sur-ecoute_1335767 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="wikigua">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/23/francois-hollande-emergency-meeting-wikileaks-us-spied-three-presidents-france |title=François Hollande calls emergency meeting after WikiLeaks claims US spied on three French presidents |last=Willsher |first=Kim |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=23 June 2015 |access-date=24 June 2015 |archive-date=24 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624010049/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/23/francois-hollande-emergency-meeting-wikileaks-us-spied-three-presidents-france |url-status=live }}</ref>