Audiovisual General: Hannun puts (again!) the left in all its glory

By attacking head-on, in his program C 8to the sacred French audiovisual public, a sacred cow that for a long time we have only criticized in a low voice because it feeds so many people, Chanuna Put his finger where it hurts. On the 17th of January, launchunder the pen of Jonathan Bouchet-Petersen, dons a lawyer’s robe and flies to the aid of the state’s dear audiovisual beast.

It should be said that the alert is bright red. No one in the media world has directly attacked public broadcasting, which for decades the French have called for to be recognized as “indispensable”, “precious”, “of quality”, “referential” and “necessarily neutral”, naturally. Mostly neutral! Our public service media (which will be to democracy what a tassel is to a moccasin, an accessory that has become essential) is scattered like a chain of its strengths from year to year, the number of people it supports outside its walls (producers, suppliers, etc.), its audience and its successes. But when we talk about the public service audience, it is not smart in the details, we have to talk about the cost of the audience, otherwise the argument is meaningless. However, this cost is insane. We must remember 3.7 billion euros of state funding Chanunaapproximately 15,000 employees France TelevisionsAnd French radioAnd RFIAnd art and other public channels. Numbers not comparable with competitors from the private sector TF1 where m 6.

Affectionate, like the rest of Marine Le Pen, she will send to you “privatize it all”, launched in “prime time”. sacrilege. We’ll simply notenuance with reason Boucher-Petersen, that the public audiovisual service, financed from a multi-year budget since the abolition of the license fee, costs less per citizen in France than in most European countries, in particularGermanyand the United Kingdom and Switzerland in particular. » undeniable. But this budget is still roughly the budget for prisons in France. Moreover, even if it means comparison, let us remember that democracy in the United States in Biden works very well without public broadcasting: this does not exist in the country of Uncle Sam when it is North Korea or China People use it excessively.

Basically, Bouchet-Bertersen (again!) is right: Bolloré’s collection is already in the crosshairs. his channel CNews She gives nightmares to the left, who are accustomed to the comfort of a public service so close to its ideas and a relentless private sector. opposition channel? horror ! CNewsBy making right-wing sounds heard, among other things, you blister the little scientist happy to go left in circles. Coincidentally, Arcom does the packaging, officially for technical reasons, such as to respect political speaking times. But CNews He is not the only one suffering from the storm. C 8SeriesChanuna Also owned by Bolloré, it also suffered the wrath of the audiovisual policeman like never before, until the ban on broadcasting advertisements on the Hanouna show in 2017. launch He plays the little music according to which the frequencies of the channels of the Breton billionaire “on loan” can be withdrawn on terms from the state! Interview with the Minister of Culture In the world Actually excites this spectrum. It never happened, even when TF1 And m 6 He took great generosity with their conventions.

All of this is likely to sound like a white thread to right-wing voters and Bolloré viewers, who will have a hard time understanding how France Inter The camp could stay with the taxpayers’ money when CNews And C 8 Developing their editorial policy using advertising money… And they will remember that the head of Arcom, who succeeded the Canadian Space Agency, was now appointed directly by… the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron. By a certain decision … Emmanuel Macron, in 2019. Close to make North Korea and China plural.