Biased, overly costly public broadcasting… Four recurring criticisms scrutinized | EUROtoday

Too costly, too left-wing, managed by the State… Public broadcasting is recurrently the topic of criticism calling into query its legitimacy. They have intensified in current weeks with the work of the National Assembly’s fee of inquiry into “neutrality, operation and financing of public broadcasting”launched within the fall of 2025 by the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR), Eric Ciotti’s group allied to the National Rally (RN). Les Décoders sifts by 4 recurring criticisms geared toward this public service.

“Public broadcasting is not neutral”

The accusation comes up recurrently in political debate: public broadcasting suffers from an ideological bias and can be “colonized by the left and the extreme left”within the phrases of Marine Le Pen on CNews. “A public service financed by the French must be irreproachably neutral, and it is not”, denounced the chief of the RN in THE Sunday newspaper, in September 2025. During current parliamentary hearings, the RN deputy for Val-d’Oise, Anne Sicard, additionally accused the general public media of treating her get together in ” enemy “.

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