2024-04-03 17:30:10
Born in the middle of the crisis Sunday newspaper – while the editorial staff massively refused the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune as its head – the proposed law for the independence of the media should be examined by the National Assembly on Thursday April 4, thanks to the environmentalist parliamentary niche. This proposal aims to condition aid to the press, but also the granting of radio and TV frequencies by the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication, the media regulator, Arcom, “the establishment of a right of approval for journalists on the appointment of their editorial director”.
Mentioned in mid-July by deputies from all sides, with the exception of the National Rally (RN) and the Republicans (LR), the idea of a transpartisan text initially had broad consensus… Before the proposal of law of the environmentalist deputy Sophie Taillé-Polian (Génération.s, Val-de-Marne) is finally rejected, Tuesday March 26, in the Business and Culture Committee.
“In public broadcasting, that would be inapplicable. Let’s leave the States General of Information [EGI] unfold », justifies the president of the commission, Isabelle Rauch (Horizons, Moselle), who called on her group to vote once morest. Christophe Marion, MP and head of Renaissance text (Loir-et-Cher), encouraged his group to do the same for similar reasons. “We need a more comprehensive law”opines Laurent Esquenet-Goxes (MoDem, Haute-Garonne) wishing that his group abstains.
A hot topic
“It’s a pretext to reject what they described as “legitimate” a few weeks ago”annoys rapporteur Mme Taillé-Polian. “After the shared indignation, the majority disappeared, hiding behind the EGI”, still scathes the environmentalist deputy Jean-Claude Raux (Loire-Atlantique). General States of information desired by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, which should result in the submission of proposals at the end of June, without the executive however committing to putting them in place.
However, the subject is hot. In a column published Tuesday March 26 in The worldaround forty journalist companies, twenty media outlets and unions, demanded that the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, “guarantee the independence of the editorial staff”. This request resurfaced once more, a year following the crisis in Echos and a few days following that which shook up the editorial staff of the regional daily Provence, owned by billionaire Rodolphe Saadé. The editorial director was fired following a “headline” described as‘” ambiguous “ by general management. A strike followed denouncing interference from the shareholder considered close to Emmanuel Macron.
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