{"id":530712,"date":"2026-01-17T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=530712"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:21:16","slug":"extreme-center-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/policy\/extreme-center-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme center, definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>In touting the idea of a label that would distinguish \u00abreliable\u00bb media from others, Emmanuel Macron betrayed an authoritarian attitude of believing that one or more individuals have the legitimacy to define what everyone should trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Some words are reassuring because they give a sense of balance. Center\u00ab is one of them. It evokes moderation, nuance, attention to every point of view, drawing good from all political camps. These are demands we have always made of ourselves here, while remaining convinced that the center does not have a monopoly on this quest for balance. It's not because we call ourselves nuanced that we are. Worse still, when the center presents itself as the only space for reason, it becomes something else: an extreme that ignores itself. The extreme center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea, formulated last month by Emmanuel Macron, of a label to distinguish reliable media from others is a perfect illustration. The declared intention is virtuous: to protect the public from false information, restore confidence in journalism and guarantee quality democracy. But behind this consensual facade lies a dangerous vision that is doomed to failure: that individuals - within or outside the state - have the legitimacy to define for others what they should trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-lire-aussi-ni-raison-sans-debat-ni-debat-sans-raison\">Read also | <a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/policy\/raison-debat-jonas-follonier\/\">Neither reason without debate nor debate without reason<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>This concept is based on a fiction: on the one hand, there are those involved in disinformation, on both the left and the right; on the other, there is an impartial space, where ethics are respected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/newsletter.infomaniak.com\/external\/submit\" class=\"inf-form\" target=\"_blank\"><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" style=\"display:none\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"key\"\nvalue=\"eyJpdiI6IlZXRVJGMlRGQUU2alNqUE81bitIUk5adnNVa0c4MllFTStzOHdHT1FQZ3c9IiwidmFsdWUiOiJIYzhwMUVCK1pTNnlhY3MyMmhuZlhReWJqemEwNk93blMxTjFHc0s2VHZrPSIsIm1hYyI6ImVhYTQ5N2I1M2NiYWE4NzBmNjk2NzgzYjliM2Y5NmYzM2E2ZmU3NGQxNTU1ZDFkMTU1MzY5NTdjYjE3ZTJmNTUifQ==\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"webform_id\" value=\"7291\"><style> .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff{ background-color:#f5f5f5;\npadding:25px 20px; margin:25px auto; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-content { margin-top:13px;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff h4, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff span, .inf-\nmain_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff label, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff input, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-success p a { color:#555555; font-\nsize:14px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff h4{ font-size:18px; margin:0px 0px 13px 0px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff h4, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff label{ font-weight:bold; } .inf-\nmain_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input { margin-bottom:7px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff label { display:block;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff input{ height:35px; color:#999999; border: 1px solid\n#E9E9E9; border:none; padding-left:7px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error label, .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error span.inf-message{ color: #cc0033; } .inf-\nmain_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error input{ border: 1px solid #cc0033; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input input { width:100%;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-input.inf-error\nspan.inf-message { display: block; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit { text-align:right;} .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit input{ background-color:#777777; color:#ffffff; border:none; font-weight:\nnormal; height:auto; padding:7px; } .inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff .inf-submit input.disabled{ opacity: 0.4; } .inf-btn { color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border: medium none; font-weight: normal; height: auto; padding: 7px; display: inline-block;\nbackground-color: white; box-shadow: 0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.24); border-radius: 2px; line-height: 1em; } .inf-rgpd { margin:25px 0px 15px 0px; color:#555555; } <\/style> <div class=\"inf-main_3000311ca56a1cb93397bc676c0b7fff\">\n<h4>NEWSLETTER DU REGARD LIBRE<\/h4> <span>Receive our articles every Sunday.<\/span> <div class=\"inf-success\" style=\"display:none\"> <h4>Your subscription to our weekly newsletter has been successfully registered!<\/h4> <p>\n<a href=\"#\" class=\"inf-btn\">\u00ab<\/a> <\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"inf-content\"> <div class=\"inf-input inf-input-text\"> <input type=\"text\" name=\"inf[1]\" data-inf-meta = \"1\" data-inf-error = \"Merci de renseigner une adresse email\" required=\"required\"\nplaceholder=\"Email\" > <\/div> <div class=\"inf-submit\"> <input type=\"submit\" name=\"\" value=\"Sign up\"> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/form>\n\n\n\n<p>This is to forget that it is not the truth that serves the debate. It's the debate that serves the truth. There's nothing worse than the notion of a \u00abcircle of reason\u00bb! As Yann Costa explains in this issue <a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cpt-editions\/le-regard-libre-n123-dossier-quel-service-public\/\">in the same issue<\/a>, To distinguish between facts and opinions as if they were two different kinds of content is a category error. Opinions&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>are<\/em>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<em>facts<\/em>&nbsp;It is by allowing all opinions to be expressed, contradicted and enriched that knowledge \u2013 always provisional but increasingly solid \u2013 can progress. It's by allowing all opinions to be expressed, contradicted and enriched that knowledge \u2013 always provisional but increasingly solid \u2013 can progress. What's more, labelling people or entities as \u00abunreliable\u00bb makes them attractive to anti-systems and a priori uninteresting to others, thus creating polarization and undermining the dialectic necessary to the quest for facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-lire-aussi-le-scepticisme-pour-echapper-au-dogmatisme-et-au-relativisme\">Read also | <a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/philosophy\/skepticism-to-escape-dogmatism-and-relativism\/\">Skepticism, to escape dogmatism and relativism<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>So it's important to leave open the confrontation of opinions, the competition between media... and labels! As is the case in Switzerland, for example, with the diversity of organizations issuing press cards based on respect for the rules of the trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his speech, Emmanuel Macron made it clear that it would not be up to the State to create this label, but to professionals \u2013 although he did refer to a label in the singular. This raises the question of who would appoint or validate these professionals, if not the State. Or the industry itself, through self-regulation? We run the risk of a closed authority defined by an influential circle, if only because it is in the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There's no doubt that, with his usual sense of backtracking and \u00abat the same time\u00bb, the Elys\u00e9e's occupant could subscribe to this analysis and thus support the sole relevance of spontaneously created labels. Except that this is already the exact current situation, in France as in Switzerland... The extreme center also means blowing hot air. When there are so many other things to say - and, above all, to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Graduate in philosophy and journalist by profession, <strong>Jonas Follonier<\/strong> is the founder and editor-in-chief of the <\/em>Regard Libre<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vous-venez-de-lire-un-editorial-en-libre-acces-debats-analyses-actualites-culturelles-nbsp-abonnez-vous-nbsp-a-notre-media-de-reflexion-pour-nous-soutenir-et-avoir-acces-a-tous-nos-contenus\">You've just read an open-access editorial. 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