{"id":526372,"date":"2025-01-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=526372"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:53:38","slug":"media-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/company\/media\/media-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The overestimated power of the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

To overestimate the power of the media is to underestimate the various reasons why people have ideas.<\/strong> It's not journalists who dictate the debate agenda, but a complex dynamic between transmitters and receivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In an age saturated with news, it would be tempting to believe that the media have great power over their audience. Yet \u00abinformation fatigue\u00bb is contemporary with the flow of news. news<\/em> and it's not absurd to imagine a link between the two phenomena. What's more, it's striking that the idea that the media are opinion-makers - or even that they're simply opinion-formers - is so widespread that it's hard to believe it's true. capable<\/em> - is often directed at one camp. Anyone who accuses the CNEWS television channel of encouraging the extreme right will not say that France Inter radio influences the French public in the opposite direction, and vice-versa...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So.., in a recent debate on Geneva's L\u00e9man Bleu channel<\/a>, editorialist Myret Zaki told the author that the money invested by businessman Vincent Bollor\u00e9 in his media, notably CNEWS, was a form of indirect political financing. However, Myret Zaki never speaks out about the public service's left-wing propaganda. The thesis that CNEWS is driving up nationalist views is plausible, but it could also be argued that it is the success of these ideas that leads to the channel's success, rather than the other way round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A transmitter-receiver dynamic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And with good reason: if CNEWS is now the leading all-news channel on certain evenings, it's partly because it has broken with decades of media unanimity on certain subjects, such as insecurity and immigration. Similarly, the fact that the rest of the political class has abandoned these themes to the nationalist right has helped the former to grow stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n