Media 🔐 Ouverture

On Media Concentration: Cartel or Trust

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Consumption & Competition Gazette

The media, considered by journalists to be the fourth institutional estate, is now aligned with the principle of the rule of cartels and other trusts or monopolies (known as dominant position). They (the journalists) argued that media concentration posed a danger to plurality, but in reality, given the plurality, it is the right to speak out that is being called into question more than anything else. So why have the major groups besieged the major media? Is it to better govern the people and their destiny, or to lend a helping hand to politicians? Especially since this trend is observed in all major countries, more or less so called democratic.

In 1995, I wrote a memo entitled "Vox Populi" while I was a law student at Assas, Paris II. I explained how to seize power using Article 16 of the Constitution. So, to return to our topic, the simple fact of establishing these information cartels or trusts at the top of civil society, in place of a multitude of press outlets, formerly more or less free, isn't this an alignment, a deliberate establishment of order? To what end? That's not the subject today; we'll see that later.

L'ouverture s'arrête ici.

Vous venez de lire la partie qui pose le problème. C'est délibérément là que s'arrête l'accès libre — la question a toujours compté davantage que la conclusion.