by FFE EU News Staff

A number of French journalists made headlines in France early this week after breaching selfie etiquette at the White House.

Newspapers and mocking Twitter users have branded these journalist ‘schoolchildren on a field trip’ after they annoyed White House staff with their endless selfies around the official residence and workplace of America’s president. The journalists couldn’t resist the temptation to capture selfies, a self-portrait photo using smartphone cameras, to document their brief visit to America’s most iconic home.

Did the journalists’ behaviour get out of hand? You be the judge:

Thomas Wieder of Le Monde captures a selfie at the Oval Office with French President Hollande and American President Obama in the background

Wieder quips he can now change jobs and be White House’ spokesman

Valerie Nataf of TF1 takes a ‘refrigerated selfie’ outside the White House

Apolline De Malherbe of BFMTV takes a selfie at the briefing room podium

French journalist and White House correspondent for Canal+ Laurence Haim meanwhile wasn’t happy with the behaviour of her colleagues and tweeted:

‘White House advisors do not appreciate all the selfies being taken by French journalists in the Oval Office, “It’s not the done thing.”’