Not a month seems to pass in which there's not some new TV contract announced for a professional or college sports league, and the figures are astonishing billions of dollars, piled high over years, sometimes decades.
Mr. Montebourg's full title is "Minister of Industrial Renewal, " but hardly a month seems to pass without another story about a plant shutting down, or Mr. Montebourg threatening a CEO for threatening to shut down a plant, or begging a CEO (sometimes the same one) to stay in France.