On June 10th, President Macron spoke out against “the tyranny of news” (faits divers) and said that the French were being “brainwashed” about murders that hit the headlines and shocked French public opinion in recent months. In line with this observation, several left-wing MPs proposed an amendment to media regulations aimed at “conducting an editorial review of the place of news items in the coverage of current events” in the public media. Behind this move lies an attempt to stifle media coverage of these cases—which are in fact linked to immigration.
