The ol’ “let’s make some waves ahead of our slide into irrelevance.”
There’s not an inherent problem with having a far-right Sunday paper. I wouldn’t read it, but I’m not going to stand in the way of press freedom. There is, however, a problem with “France’s flagship Sunday newspaper” using decades of goodwill to lurch right and hope people don’t notice.
This sort of shit has a larger effect than whatever content they decide to run: further confirmation that “the media” as a whole can’t be trusted because “even the most respected papers” (oh, yes, it becomes plural in people’s minds) are abandoning any semblance of objectivity.
The ol’ “let’s make some waves ahead of our slide into irrelevance.”
There’s not an inherent problem with having a far-right Sunday paper. I wouldn’t read it, but I’m not going to stand in the way of press freedom. There is, however, a problem with “France’s flagship Sunday newspaper” using decades of goodwill to lurch right and hope people don’t notice.
This sort of shit has a larger effect than whatever content they decide to run: further confirmation that “the media” as a whole can’t be trusted because “even the most respected papers” (oh, yes, it becomes plural in people’s minds) are abandoning any semblance of objectivity.