It’s not surprising that much mainstream French journalism is complacent, incurious and stenographic. The elite French media is lavishly subsidised and the torrent of handouts makes tenuous any claim that mainstream French journalism is independent.
The most compromised are the broadcasters. Indeed there’s little pretence that they offer more than token auditing of the government. Three
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