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France Télévisions: editors urged to talk more about Europe

This is surprising information to say the least about the leading French audiovisual group in terms of audiences. As revealed The world, the management of France Télévisions has been encouraging its editors for several months to talk more about certain subjects, in exchange for financial compensation. It would thus have set objectives for them, under the heading “Diversity, visibility, overseas, Europe”, on which a variable part of their salaries depends.

This device would have been put in place several months ago in order to stem the under-representation of these subjects on the air. According to a study by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation published in December 2019, subjects related to European news represented only 2.7% of news on television news in 2018, i.e. as much as the UN, underlines The world.

Certain political pressures could also have pushed France Télévisions to review its editorial choices. During a hearing at the National Assembly on September 17, 2020, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, declared that it was necessary to “strengthen the mechanisms which lead our public channels to talk more about Europe. “. “Let us seek all possible means of constraint or pressure to achieve this,” he added, four months before these revelations. This incentive is aimed in particular at prime-time television news, when the Élysée considers the subject of Europe to be essential.

 

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