Overview
- The audiovisual regulator issued a formal warning over a June 19 episode on the Senate, faulting missing context, unchallenged allegations and misleading wording.
- Earlier in the week, the program cut a segment based on Reporters Sans Frontières’ figures about CNews after Arcom rejected the NGO’s conclusions on pluralism.
- France Télévisions’ journalists’ society defended the show’s rigor and criticized the timing of Arcom’s objections, saying the regulator declined interviews and had the RSF study days in advance.
- A parliamentary commission examining the neutrality of public broadcasters has begun with tense hearings of Arcom leaders and will next hear Delphine Ernotte, Sibyle Veil, Adèle Van Reeth, Thomas Legrand and Patrick Cohen.
- Arcom has opened a six‑month review of public‑service impartiality as Cour des comptes findings on deficits and high compensation intensify scrutiny of the sector’s governance and spending.