France Television is one of the group of mass media in France. They possess six channels on French television. Consequently, they are really important on information flows. Their audiences are mostly masses and they provide general information and also cultural information with the channel France 5. They were independant until then but partly financed by state.
But now, the French Parliament has taken the control on the financial aspect of the firm and on the level of the direction. Indeed, the president of France Television is now named by the French President. This questionned a lot the independance of the channels and therefore the independance of the journalist. Will the president of the firm let the political journalist make criticism about the political class ? Because the president of France Television was named by the man who is criticised by his journalist. Choose the right side: political class or jounalists ?
This could be very bad for the information flows in France. Because TF1 is also controlled by the director of campaign of Sarkozy and now the president of France Television will be controlled by probably a "friend" of Sarkozy.
So what do you think bloggers, will the president of France Television choose politics or journalism ?
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Well I think that we have learned in this class that messages can be implicit, even in the finance world. Journalists of France Television will probably have to respect their new director but what needs to be said can not stay hidden too long... Meassages can be passed and understood through other ways, other forms of communications.
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