The rise of Marine Le Pen to front-runner in the French election is closely intertwined with the emergence of a powerful conservative media machine backed by billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
The rise of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally to front-runner in Sunday’s French election is closely intertwined with the emergence of a powerful conservative media machine backed by billionaire Vincent Bolloré, dubbed the “French Murdoch”.
“Their choice of guests and the way content is framed can serve to legitimise a certain vision of the world,” said Safia Dahani, a postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, who studies the far right.in the first round of voting on Sunday, beating both an alliance of the left and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist group.
The star anchor of a talk show on Vivendi’s C8 channel, Cyril Hanouna, was given a special daily two-hour political show on the group’s Europe 1 radio. On CNews, a presenter praised the National Rally’s platform that grants the presumption of self-defence to police officers.
Daily shows on CNews routinely feature political pundits promoting ultra-conservative talking points, with an emphasis on crime and insecurity, especially targeting immigrants, and attacks on Islam. The time spent on such themes gets the channel and other Vivendi media outlets frequent raps on the knuckles from the country’s media regulator.
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