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.
Journalist Marianne Grosjean sends out a message in each of her columns. This month, she comments on advances in medically assisted reproduction (MAP) in Switzerland.
As he leaves our columns after four years of writing, video artist Ralph Müller reflects on the limits of political commentary and salutes «initiatives such as this magazine to encourage the circulation of ideas and reading».
Every month, youtuber Ralph Müller delivers his scathing analysis of a phenomenon typical of the times. This month, he explores the banality of evil through «Nuremberg».
Peggy Sastre and Leonardo Orlando denounce the academic and media omerta that today surrounds the differences between men and women. Drawing on decades of scientific research, they call for a return to fact-based debate.
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.
In this article, Marina Rougement, a doctoral student at the University of Lausanne and secondary school German teacher, uses classroom situations to denounce the trivialization of anti-Semitism and the ambiguities of anti-Zionist discourse.
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