Between Watergate and the Gulag : The French Press and Politics, 1970–1985
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1607857499
ISBN-13
9781607857495
Publisher
Michigan Publishing Services
Imprint
Maize Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 9th, 2022
Print length
249 Pages
Product Classification:
Media studiesPress & journalism
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This book analyzes the relationship of the French press to political power. The bedrock concept of “innocent until proven guilty” is reversed for French journalists in libel cases; they enter courtrooms presumed guilty. Royal holdovers live on: Louis XIV’S system of indirect control through revocable favors persists in the form of state financial aid to the press. The weekly Le Canard Enchaîné is a journalistic court jester that plays the same role as the fops at Versailles, telling truth to power in joke form on topics that “serious” journals avoid. Also introduced: “surplus freedom” a novel approach for gauging self-censorship by comparing the degree of free expression a legal system permits to what publications actually exercise.
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