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Bruno Retailleau is senator from Vendée and president of the Les Républicains group in the Senate.
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Is the Council of State transforming into a state censor?
We can fear this, as its decision towards the CNews channel is a new example of the deterioration of the relationship that some, in our institutions, have with freedom.
Because no one is fooled: by demanding that columnists and hosts be cataloged by school of thought, in the logic of counting the speaking times of political guests, it is indeed the principle of editorial freedom of the media that is being undermined. in question the highest administrative court of our country, in the name - supreme paradox - of the plurality of opinions.
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Worse, if the principle is questionable, its practice will be even more so: who will judge whether a particular editorialist belongs to a particular school of thought?
And according to what criteria?
Because it is a fact that in the realm of political correctness, the border…
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