IL is not easy to know if the holding project aimed at overseeing radio and public televisions will be useful or disastrous. More readable is the ideological and cultural battle that the political class leads through such a thing, whose fate should be settled in Parliament in September. It is indeed no coincidence that, roughly speaking, the whole range of the right is for fusion, and the left against.
For the national rally, the subject is a babiole towards the essentials: public radios and televisions being imbued with undecrotable leftism, their privatization will be the best way to get rid of it. On the right or in the central block, we are not going so far, which does not prevent seeing in these media a hostile microcosm; The merger will already save money.
A question, more or less admitted, germinates in political heads: why accept that an audiovisual funded by public money (4 billion euros), therefore by the tax of everyone, vehicles on its chains of subjects, ideas, programs, testimonies which only speak half the electoral body, and again? This question must be said, no one asked it ten years ago. We didn’t even think about it. By dint of being hammered by the extreme right, declined without nuances by the media of Vincent Bolloré, it sticks to the rightization of society. And at a more tense time.
The ransom of success
France Inter is often cited as the main target of this cultural battle. It is the ransom of success. When you pile up at the hear, with 7.3 million listeners each day, including 4.9 million for its morning, you become an issue.
Mardi 1is July, guest of the morning, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, said at the end of the program in a playful tone that it is a chance, even an honor, when he is not really a leftist, to be invited on Inter: “A right minister, on France Inter …” He did not have time to finish his sentence that the journalist Léa Salamé cut her: “That’s easy …”
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