As Europe often sets trends in media that eventually filter over to the states, it’s interesting to see that newspapers might officially become charity cases in France. As detailed at followthemedia.com, the French Culture Minister has proposed that either a single national foundation or individual foundations for each paper newspaper be established that would allow charitable gifts to support the country’s newspapers. While a few articles have appeared in the U.S. proposing the same idea, France has actually taken a further step towards such a scenario. It’s only a matter of time before it happens on this side of the Atlantic.