A TF1 subject discussing electric cars caused a lot of reaction this summer. To the point that Arcom wrote on the front page.
This summer, obviously very inspired by the subject, TF1 devoted several reports to electric cars. With one particularity: two broadcasts a few weeks apart caused a huge reaction, particularly among the community of “electro-mobilists”, because the electric car was approached in a negative aspect. Above all, journalists and witnesses had multiplied errors and approximations, clearly giving a bad and erroneous image of the electric car.
At the end of August, a subject was really aimed at evoking a possible reversal of the electric market, with the testimony of a woman who spent 13 € to travel 100 km on electric… when it costs around 3 € with a recharge at home, information not specified.
Above all, a little before, we remember a comparison between diesel, hybrid and electric on a long journey. With electric, the journalist’s travel time was significantly longer, due to many problems at the terminals… on a journey that could be done without recharging. Line of defense? The journalist put himself in the place of a novice… a novice who certainly would not have made so many errors or bad choices on the same course. To calm things down, the journalist ended up admitting that his return trip had been much more successful… which was not specified in the subject broadcast.
Faced with this sequence, our chief complainer wrote a column. And viewers/readers alerted Arcom, the former CSA, nicknamed the audiovisual policeman. Arcom looked at the famous comparison during its college meeting on October 23. Valentin, one of our readers, sent us the response he received from Arcom:
If it considered that a breach was not established during this report, the Authority informed the channel of the emotion it caused and invited it to address questions relating to the ecology and sustainable development, essential, with all the rigor and measure required.
No sanction for TF1 therefore, but a small call to order following these subjects!
Of course, at Automobile Propre, we are not here to only say good things about electric cars, our news feed can prove it. But we will always be annoyed to see widely followed media (a 20 Hours broadcast on TF1 reaches 5 million viewers) giving so much fodder to anti-electric cars by providing such poor information…
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