The executive distributes the good points to the media in dealing with the crisis

I love you, me neither. Between the executive and the press, it is definitely a very complicated story. The coronavirus crisis is putting them to the test again. Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye relayed a government information service (GIS) initiative on her Twitter account on Thursday: the launch of a site dedicated to the fight against fake news circulating on the virus . A praiseworthy approach in view of the proliferation of sometimes dangerous inanities that are exchanged on social networks but an approach whose process has however caused a wave of indignation in the profession.

Attached to their independence, newsrooms in general and journalists in particular do not appreciate seeing the government affix a sort of “official truth” label on the information they report. " These are only articles related to the coronavirus with the sole objective of informing the French," we argue within the executive. Except that being

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