2023-07-14 10:41:19
Fake newsartificial intelligence, media concentration will be at the heart of “states of information”announced Thursday July 13 for September by the Élysée after a year of waiting, under the leadership of an independent committee which will deliver its conclusions by next summer.
Promise of the candidate Macron, these states general “are not a response to the news”specifies Christophe Deloire, of Reporters without borders, appointed general delegate of the committee. “It’s a long-term process”the “question of independence of information” listed among “many more questions”, he said, in the midst of a crisis at the JDD. Whatever, the editorial staff of the Sunday newspaper, which is entering its fourth week of strike, welcomed the announcement in a press release, recalling having questioned Emmanuel Macron on the subject.
According to the Élysée, this work aims to find “new balances” in a rapidly changing media landscape and in a context of “global mistrust”. They will thus have to make it possible to propose concrete actions which can be deployed at national, European and international level, according to the press release from the executive.
Economic model
media education, “conditions for exercising the profession of journalist”economic model and regulation of the sector or even “role of the different actors, on interference and manipulation” information will also be on the menu, according to the press release from the Élysée.
The steering committee will be chaired by Bruno Lasserre, president of the Cada (commission for access to administrative documents) and former vice-president of the Council of State, surrounded by four other members, including the deputy director general of La Poste and former press officer (Liberation, The New Observer) Nathalie Collin, the researcher Camille François, author of a report on metaverses and the general inspector of finances Anne Perrot.
Christopher Deloire“will officiate in a personal capacity as general delegate” keeping his cap as Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders, that “this voluntary mission will not engage”the NGO said in a statement.
« Transpartisan »
The committee will also work in liaison with the Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize 2021.
“There was a strong demand”underlined Christophe Deloire, while the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak had mentioned a year ago an opening of the debates in November 2022. Above all, the subject came back to the fore with the movement of journalists from the JDD , opposed to the arrival at their head of the former editorial director of Current values Geoffroy Lejeune and applicants for guarantees concerning their editorial independence.
Despite the polarization of public debate, the “editorial independence issue” newsrooms and the right to information are major issues to be addressed “right, center and left”insists Christophe Deloire, emphasizing the aspect « transpartisan » states general.
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