INFO FRANCEINFO. TNT Commission of Inquiry: the majority of the members of the commission refuse to sign the report, disagreeing with its conclusions
The majority of the 30 members of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into TNT, which was to submit its report to the government on Tuesday May 7, refuses to sign the text as it stands, disagreeing with the conclusions of the rapporteur, the deputy La France rebellious Aurélien Saintoul, Franceinfo learned from corroborating sources.
Since its launch in December at the initiative of LFI deputies, the commission of inquiry, which has thirty members, has interviewed the heads of the largest audiovisual groups, including Vincent Bolloré, as well as presenters from CNews and C8 (Canal+ group), such as Pascal Praud and Cyril Hanouna. Hearings scrutinized by the media regulator, Arcom, which will have to decide at the end of the year whether C8 and CNews keep their frequencies.
According to information from franceinfo, the deputies who are members of the National Rally categorically exclude validating the report, considering that the commission was openly hostile to Vincent Bolloré. For their part, 16 deputies from Renaissance, Modem, Horizons and Les Républicains are trying to compromise and will send an email to the commission’s rapporteur, LFI Aurélien Saintoul, to ask him to withdraw 19 of his 43 proposals. If they do not win their case, they will not sign and the report will be buried.
Among the recommendations that these elected officials reject include the ban on news channels having editorialists on the air, the end of paid DTT or the banning of cartoons before school. Proposals that the signatories of the text consider unacceptable and even dangerous for press freedom and the future of digital terrestrial television. Other proposals are even considered irrelevant, such as the renunciation of the public broadcasting holding project.
Whatever the rapporteur’s response, the parliamentarians of the presidential majority intend to make their own recommendations in a few days. For example, they want to impose a quota of reports in the programs of news channels, or even put a frequency back into play as soon as a certain number of sanctions have been pronounced against a channel.
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