The importance of media financing: towards an informed or manipulated democracy?

Did you expect me to make a pro-Domo plea, to ask for more money? No way ! I read in today’s Figaro that the state shareholder plans to reduce the budget of France Télévisions and Radio France by 100 million euros. And I’m happy about it! We must take this as a reward for the public service’s growing audiences.

You know it, you have repeated it, diet allows you to maintain health.

So, I guess we found our Elon Musk, our minister of government efficiency. So we’re going to lose weight and that’s good because otherwise we risk doing like the Russians. Why the Russians? The Russians have never stopped increasing the budgets of their state media like Russia Today: 13% increase per year, it is said.

The figures are obviously difficult to know precisely, but this annual increase allows Russia Today to broadcast messages hostile to democracy, racist, anti-Semitic messages, to explain that Hillary Clinton is an illuminati, that Ukrainians are crucifying children. , or even that Americans celebrate Putin’s birthday with a Poutine Burger. With such information, there is no need for further misinformation.

And all this is just a joke, since behind Russia Today, there is a multitude of kolkhozes with trolls who continually produce bogus information and other smoke and mirrors intended for the West. And that’s the funny side of it. The more the Russians increase the budgets of their state media, the more we lower the budgets of ours, in case there is a duplicate.

What is the point of public media? Why inform the French, since the Russians are taking care of it?

We now know that Michel Barnier is a reptile and that Marine Tondelier takes his orders under the trilateral pyramid. For the rest, it’s very nice to carry out various and varied operations to show that we are very, very, very, very attached to quality information when, in fact, we are clipping its wings.

What is the point of these fine declarations on the link between information and democracy if we forget that information is not free?

But rest assured, if the information is not funded, it will be bought, in other words sold.