In particular, the ecologist candidate in the presidential election proposed to redefine the derogations from the secrecy of cases, to increase the protection of the sources or to regulate the size of the media groups.
Le Monde with AFP
In this first month of the year 2022, candidates for the presidential election lend themselves to the game of traditional wishes to the press. The Candidate Ecologist Yannick Jadot, chose to hold his Friday, January 7, seven years day for the day after the attacks who referred to the writing of Charlie Hebdo. He presented his “rupture” measures, in order to “preserve the freedom of the press”, in particular against the “rise in power of the social networks” and “the growing competition of GaFam”.
“I pledge to make my mandate that of the independence of the press”, because there is “needing a major break” in the media, launched the MEP. It proposes that Parliament returns to the definition of the secret of business and its derogations, that an amendment be laid down to the Protection of Sources Act which would stipulate “protection against any risk of judicial procedural commitment for purposes. intimidation “, or the recovery of the right to disseminate images during events” when police violence “.
” Collective responsibility to correct and restore confidence “
In this press conference, the ecologist candidate has lamented the “rise in power of social networks”, as “the growing competition of GAFAM” or “the financial appetite of a number of shareholders” , to the detriment of journalists who work “under precarious conditions”.
“We have a collective responsibility to correct and restore confidence in the verified information,” said Mr. Jadot, whispering “unwanted promises” and the “media bashing” of certain political figures to the media.
“In this presidential campaign, the question of freedom of the press, the independence of the media and the relations of the French to the information [is very largely neglected,” said the claimant to the Elysee face to journalists, while deplorning “structural weakening” of confidence in “the media and all institutions”.
In the face of “the increasingly strong concentration” of the media and “the undeniable obsolescence of the rules of pluralism”, Yannick Jadot has also proposed “update” the 1986 law to “regulate the size of the “media and” imposing the publication of the actual owners of the press and audiovisual owners “.
“By the game of public aid, we will strengthen the role of the writing of the shareholders”, he also assured, citing as “track” possible “the creation of a right of approval to give to the journalists a binding power over the most important decisions “within the media.
m. Jadot also stated that it does not want to “leave the press companies abuse the use of the precarious” contracts “, while” imposing the establishment of cells of reporting sexual and sexist violence “. He finally pleaded for “information and critical thinking (…) from the youngest”, “at school”.