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.