In December 2003, the newspaper "La Croix" made headlines after firing one of its own journalists, Alain Hertoghe, for writing a book that was allegedly damaging to the newspaper's editorial line. Hertoghe accused the four major French newspapers—"Le Monde", "Le Figaro", "Libération" and "Ouest-France"—in addition to "La Croix", of biased reporting during the U.S. war in Iraq.