Roch-Olivier Maistre: "The CSA is not the court of opinion"

LE FIGARO.

- Do you see the rise of public opinion on television as a danger?

Roch-Olivier MAISTRE.

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France is an old country of debate.

It is natural that he expresses himself in all the media, even in a lively, even polemical way.

Where would it manifest itself if not?

Restricting debate is always a form of amputation of our democratic life.

In this period of intense questioning, the interest of our fellow citizens for information has greatly increased and debate broadcasts, around experts and editorial writers, have taken on an increasing role.

This is an opportunity for me to recall that our primary mission, as a regulator, is to guarantee freedom of expression and editorial freedom of the media.

We often turn to us on the theme: "But what does the CSA do?"

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I say it bluntly: it is not we who make the programs of the antennas and the CSA is not the tribunal of opinion.

In the period that we are going through,

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