Based on many examples of hinders made to journalists, the author, himself a victim of pressures, focuses on highlighting the close links between large patterns of television and political leaders. Without bringing a new reflection on the subject.
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Book. No doubt Jean-Baptiste Rivoire could not hope better date of release of the book (January 12) that he took five years to write. At three months of the first round of the presidential election, the Elysée (and the oligarchs) against the info is likely to give silos of grain to grind to all those who already deform information on the ground that This would be in the hands of the most powerful economic interests against which our successive leaders can, or want to attempt anything.
Interventionism, desire for manipulation, weak defense of freedom of the press, or even temptation to limit it (with the law “global security”, adopted by Parliament in 2021): none of the last three Presidents of the Republic does not come out Grandi of these 400 pages led to the sound of Canon. “For encouraged a handful of rich industrialists to take control of almost all private media, French politicians find themselves trapped, forced to show their white paw to access the power, the author in the introduction. At the risk. to make the Elysée an opponent of freedom of information. “
censures and pressures
Bygmalion case – on the campaign accounts of the UMP (predecessor of the Party The Republicans) in 2012 – that Nicolas Sarkozy would have preferred not to see revealed in the emission “Special Envoy” (France 2); LVMH Champage Pressures and Tensitations so that the magazine “Supplement of Investigation” (France 2) abandons an investigation by Tristan Waleckx on the business of the luxury group; Revelations of Valentine Oberti on French weapons used against civilian populations in Yemen, to which the emission “daily”, broadcast on TMC (group TF1), first renounced, etc. Investigations hampered in censored reports, pressed pressures requested, the book compiles the crowd of setbacks encountered by investigative journalists while they were trying to conduct surveys for public or private television channels ( newspapers and radio are not evoked).
Like the blows against the information in the Canal + group, which have been fueling the column for several years, most of these cases have been revealed by the press, or even beeled in survey books abundantly cited. Their frighter compilation, about fifteen years, quite caurged vertigo. No media group held by an “oligarch” (so no more [NIEL], of which Xavier Niel is a shareholder as a personal capacity, that the Altice groups of Patrick Drahi, TF1 of Martin Bouygues, or that of Arnaud Lagardère …) N ‘ escapes the very large shot of river fillet. The audiovisual public is not spared: the author had visibly at heart to tell how, while preserving the last spaces devoted to the investigation on the antennas of France Télévisions, his president, Delphine Ernotte, has organized it Attrition.
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