2023-07-19 11:00:07
A cross-partisan bill rather than silence and inaction. MPs from all sides, with the exception of the National Rally (RN) and the Republicans (LR), were to table, Wednesday, July 19, a text aimed at “protect the editorial freedom of media seeking state aid”. While it will be a month, this weekend, that the drafting of the Sunday newspaper manifests its refusal to welcome Geoffroy Lejeune at its head through the strike, this bill aims to condition aid to the press, but also the granting of radio and television frequencies, “the establishment of a right of approval for journalists on the appointment of their editorial director”.
“It’s an emergency proposal”, justifies Sophie Taillé-Polian (Génération s), at the origin of the initiative. In view of the parliamentary calendar, however, and in the best of cases, the text cannot be debated before the beginning of December. “For us, it will be too late, recognizes a striker. It would have been nice if this kind of safeguard existed before. But we also think of others. »
In the spirit of Sophie Taillé-Polian, it is a new “anti-Bolloré law”, after the Bloche law of 2016, that it is. The former socialist deputy had given his name to a text inspired by the rout of i-Télé, today CNews, after its takeover by the Vivendi group, of which the Breton industrialist is the main shareholder. Intended to strengthen the “freedom, independence and pluralism of the media”, the law notably introduced the creation of ethical charters, negotiated between media management and journalists’ representatives, and ethics committees. Under evaluation by the National Assembly, “it is insufficient, we cannot dispute it”believes the elected representative of Val-de-Marne.
“Put a first milestone”
Making Vincent Bolloré a single target would however ” counter productive “warns an interlocutor of the executive, for whom a text expressly « antimilliardaires » would come up against the refusal of many deputies. “It is the effect of concentration on the decline of pluralism in France that worries me”, also justifies Violette Spillebout, the spokeswoman for the Renaissance group in the Assembly. Signatory of the text in the same way as her colleague Sacha Houlié, president of the law commission, she had expressed her support for the drafting of the Sunday newspaper (JDD) from the evening organized by Reporters Without Borders on 27 June.
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