“The rapporteur should not transform a commission of inquiry into a court” | EUROtoday

La parliamentary fee of inquiry “on the neutrality, operation and financing of public broadcasting” started its work on November 25, 2025, on the initiative of the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR) group, an ally of the National Rally. Today she provides a “sad spectacle”within the phrases of its president, the deputy (Horizons) for Calvados Jérémie Patrier-Leitus.

The mission of public broadcasting is to supply rigorous data, assure pluralism of opinions, help cultural creation and make academic and citizen content material accessible to as many individuals as potential. These missions tackle explicit significance in a context marked by the rise of disinformation, the focus of personal media, fierce competitors from platforms and rising mistrust of public speech.

Public broadcasting should after all settle for the controversy. He can not, and should not, refuse criticism. He has rights and duties. With respect to residents and elected officers, he should all the time be prepared to debate, to make clear his technique, to elucidate his selections. But the stakes are such that this debate, even contradictory, should happen clearly, in full transparency, with rigor and rigor, so far as potential from partisan controversies and tactical, electoral and political ulterior motives.

For a number of years, public broadcasting has been weakened. Uncertainties over its financing, successive reforms carried out with out a clear long-term imaginative and prescient, in addition to recurring suspicions of political interference gas a sense of concern, each amongst professionals and residents. A weakened public service is an impoverished democratic debate. However, public broadcasting is in the beginning a public service. It is just not a gaggle of personal channels whose aims are primarily industrial. Its missions are outlined by the legislator, financed by the State, managed by public authorities.

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