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"Public broadcasting does not inform us, it preaches to us"

2021-05-08T19:15:36.235Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The demands of fairness and respect for pluralism which fall to France Télévisions are too often abandoned in favor of an openly militant approach, considers Sami Biasoni.


Sami Biasoni is a doctoral student in philosophy at the École normale supérieure, member of the Observatory of decolonialism and identity ideologies and co-author (with Anne-Sophie Nogaret) of

French despite themselves - racialists, decolonialists, indigenists: those who want to deconstruct France (L'Artilleur, 2020), prefaced by Pascal Bruckner.

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Barely appointed by the CSA at the head of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte declared, all shame bue: “

we have a television set of white men over 50 years old, and that will have to change.

". She thus marked her first term of office with the seal of an obsession with diversity that was never to be denied; instead of promoting the fair representation of France in all its wealth of backgrounds, histories and cultures, it placed the audiovisual public service on the conflictual path of differentialism of mistrust. This perilous strategy has the effect of communitarizing instead of creating something in common; it singles out and opposes while advocating absolute tolerance as a new cardinal value. In fact, it imposes on all an inviolability of the identities of each one by claiming to act for the good of the individuals.

In defiance of the plebiscite of the audience, the viability of the programs, and without regard for the professional qualities of the ousted personalities, we then demanded or encouraged the departure of historical figures from the public audiovisual landscape: Julien Lepers, Patrick Sébastien, Tex, Frédéric Taddeï were among those, who to embody a supposedly backward-looking France, who for having been wrong with a humorous clumsiness, all for being so insufficiently "visible in the minority".

In the decree which specifies the missions of France Télévisions, it is not at all a question of skin color, of gender self-determination, in other words, of a contemporary rereading of the notion of "diversity".

It is about the multiplicity of opinions and their free confrontation.

Sami Biasoni

Delphine Ernotte was recently elected president of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world's leading alliance of public service media. As part of this mandate, she recently denounced the interference of power vis-à-vis its public channels in certain countries of central Europe, claiming the need for a "

form of trust that citizens [must] have in their public radios and televisions

”. Paradoxically, if the question of insufficient journalistic independence is indeed a major issue within certain democracies of Europe, it is in a way the opposite excess from which our country suffers with respect to its public broadcasting. .

Article 44 of the law of September 30, 1986 defining the missions of the public service certainly enjoins “

France Télévisions [to be reflected] in its programming the diversity of French society

”, but the decree of June 23, 2009 does not fail to specify to In this regard, the need to respect “

the objective of pluralism of currents of thought and opinion, and of diversity in the creation and production of programs

”.

In this decree, there is no question of skin color, of gender self-determination, in other words, of a contemporary rereading of the notion of “diversity” in the light of the new dissociative criteria of militant post-postmodernity. On the contrary, it is about what founds our democratic pact: the multiplicity of opinions and their free confrontation, with respect for others and their difference, not in essence, but in thought and action.

The old Aristotelian notion of "general interest" has been so overused that it no longer corresponds to the search for the good of all, but to the satisfaction of the spirit of revenge of some. This reversal operates within France Télévisions in two ways: on the one hand through a selection of recurring guests who conform - when they are not the main promoters - to the progressive ideological line, most often to the detriment of opinions or "profiles" deemed inappropriate.

Not long ago, we learned that the regional director of France 3 Center-Val de Loire had refused the broadcast of a documentary funded by the city of Orléans when a commitment in principle had been made, on the grounds that the Current Values ​​journalist Charlotte d'Ornellas lent her voice to some sequences of the film, regardless of the fact that the latter herself had played Joan of Arc during the Johannine festivals in the past, celebrations which were precisely the subject of the documentary.

The other lever is that of editorial tropism, that is to say of the choice of certain themes to the detriment of others, a choice marked by a voluntary imbalance in favor of certain militant subjects, in defiance of the primary mission that the one would be entitled to expect from the public service, which consists in informing without ideological bias.

These biases are particularly pronounced on the multimedia information channels such as France Info and France.tv Slash.

We relay, for example, at will and often without a critical eye, the controversies of the Anglo-Saxon world.

Sami Biasoni

These biases are particularly pronounced on the multimedia information channels such as France Info and France.tv Slash. For example, we relay at will and often without a critical eye the polemics of the Anglo-Saxon world relating to the censorship of such a classic doomed to gemonies by a few marginal deconstructionists. Themes relating to phobias, identity discrimination and the need for community acceptance abound; they are furthermore treated by their own panegyrists. France Info invites Eric Fassin (June 2020) to talk about “

race

” and “

white privilege

” without contradiction, whereas these

pseudo-concepts

politicians are debating at the very least, France Culture hands its microphones to Françoise Vergès (June 2020) so that she can claim the need for France to "

deconstruct

" its own history in order to eradicate the "

privileges

" that would benefit many of his fellow citizens, Gilles Boëtsch (January 2021) explains that, in spite of himself, Babar would convey an apologetic vision of colonialism and affirms that as a consequence ""

it should perhaps be said that these children's books are perhaps no longer books for children today

”.

If the arguments challenge for what they are - so much they derogate from our values ​​of universalism and humanist tolerance - it is not their expression that poses a problem in a democracy like ours, it is their implicit promotion, no not by a private press organ, but by a public audiovisual service whose militancy betrays some of its essential missions, sometimes in spite of itself, often in conscience.

Source: lefigaro

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