Media coverage involves disseminating individual or collective interpretations of reality. Having become an agent of mediation, it shapes the narratives through which we make sense of the world. But what are we truly confronted with when we seek information?
T.C. Intelligence analyzed nearly 1,000 posts from the @rtsinfo Instagram account between January 8 and March 25, 2026. Its main conclusion: when the public broadcaster deviates from neutrality, it almost always does so in the same direction.
While the Swiss people have settled – twice – the question of the amount of the audiovisual licence fee, at least for a while, the discussion on the offer provided by this compulsory levy must continue. The same applies to France.
With Agora, the French-language media outlet «Le Peuple» has launched an unprecedented observatory of RTS news production, based on a public, reproducible methodology. Journalist Raphaël Pomey describes the genesis, results and democratic issues involved.
In 2013, crisis-stricken Greece abruptly shut down its public broadcasting system. Nicolas Brodard recounts the battle over ERT: social struggles, control of the narrative and the illusions of a public service reinvented under Greek austerity, in the heart of chaos.
Placed at the heart of a heated national debate on the licence fee, accused of ideological bias and condemned to make savings, Switzerland's public broadcasting system is going through a turbulent period. Pascal Crittin, head of the French-speaking part of the company, responds to the critics.
Economics is a language of models and equations. Yet its foundations are philosophical. Giving heterodox currents back their rightful place means restoring the vitality and pluralism of this discipline - and thus its link with liberalism.
French musicology, frozen in a certain dogmatism, is drifting away from the very essence of musical language. That, at least, is James Lyon's point of view. In this article, the music historian defends his resolutely personal reading of the discipline.
Supposedly ultra-liberal, this magazine is also hostile to «queer rights», at least according to the latest article by this Lausanne University professor and star of environmental activism. An opportunity to remind ourselves of our values.