Released Wednesday in cinemas, Media Crash is a documentary that denounces the stranglehold of French billionaires on the private media and identifies cases of interference with press freedom. The media workshop receives Valentine Oberti, co-director of Media Crash.
Produced by Mediapart and Premiers Lignes, Media Crash wants to arouse the debate on the concentration of the media, in France, in the hands of less than a dozen billionaires, Vincent Bolloré at the head. To do this, the film is released in around fifty French theaters and the screenings will often be followed by a debate.
At the microphone of The media workshopthe co-director of Media Crash Valentine Oberti, journalist at the French news site Mediapart in charge of video reports and investigations, tells the reason for this documentary. She explains the urgency of broadcasting it two months before the French presidential election.
It is about the ideological shift taken on the antennas of CNEWS and C8, the way certain billionaires put pressure on journalists to censor them with sometimes the complicity of the State, the intimidation of journalists demanding explanations from the French government on the use of French weapons against civilians in Yemen.
The documentary nevertheless ends on hopeful notes: Almost everywhere in France, new independent media are emerging. In the newsrooms, journalists fight for you to have access to information. »
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