Left-wing journalists have won a huge battle in France against CNews, the country’s most popular news channel. France’s Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, has given the media regulator Arcom six months to investigate the channel to determine whether or not it is keeping to strict rules on balanced and independent journalism.
CNews is one of five French news channels and the only one that defiantly ignores the groupthink of leftist Paris journalists. It’s long been the target of those seeking to silence it in a campaign reminiscent of that waged against GB News by leftist groups in Britain, who both complain to Ofcom and organise advertising boycotts.
France is already quietly one of the most censorious countries in Europe
CNews is hardly a redoubt of extreme right wing thought. It has excellent journalists like Christine Kelly and Pascal Praud. It’s consistently lively and intelligent. It merely lacks the mindset that all the other channels appear to fiercely guard.
All CNews has done is define the Overton window of accepted ideas in society somewhat more expansively than any of the other TV stations in France.
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