STORY – The issue of media concentration has turned into a sterile debate around CNews.
The subject is fascinating: concentration in the media. The cast is impressive: Vincent Bolloré, Bernard Arnault, Roch-Olivier Maistre, Thomas Rabe, Patrick Drahi, Sibyle Veil, Delphine Ernotte… A cocktail that promised to be as explosive as the commission of inquiry into the Benalla affair. The senators themselves welcomed it in advance. But after thirty interminable hearings, the Senate committee turned into a farce. We attended a discussion of “commercial coffee”, according to the expression of Mediapart. “It’s not a commission of inquiry, it’s a disciplinary council. I felt like I was in elementary school.” entrusts one of the interviewed personalities. In question, the obsession of the rapporteur David Assouline, socialist senator, to speak only of one subject: CNews. “It was not worth moving the bench and the back bench for an anti-Bolloré commission instrumentalized by the socialist party“, continues this personality.
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