Environment: CNews' Request for Formal Notice Addressed to the Arcom
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Negation of warming, denigration of wind turbines... Quotaclimate and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation point out this Monday, October 5 in a report the biased treatment of environmental issues on the chain of Vincent Bolloré. For political scientist Théodore Tallent, one of the co-authors, the Arcom must ensure the plurality of points of view.
This study is "based on a limited scope and questionable methodological choices", says CNews in a press release, asserting itself "attached to editorial freedom and pluralism." Nearly 70 hours of programmes broadcast in July 2025 on the four continuous news channels (with BFMTV, LCI and franceinfo) were analysed by specialists from the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, a think tank close to the left, and from QuotaClimat, an association committed to clima…
A report by the QuotaClimat association and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation points to the invisibility of environmental issues on continuous information channels. The association has decided to seize the Arcom on this subject.
CNews is in the viewfinder of a new study. The chain is accused of devoting too little space to environmental issues and of prioritising controversies when it approaches them. CNews refutes, in particular by contesting the method used.
A study by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and QuotaClimate highlights the treatment of environmental issues by CNews and calls on the Arcom to give notice to the chain for failing to comply with pluralism and the rigour of information.
QuotaClimat and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation have announced that they have seized the Arcom against CNews, accused of subcontracting the environment and of multiplying the climate "misinformation". Behind the figures of a severe report is also emerging a more political battle, with a desire to weigh in the editorial choices of the media.
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Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources lean Left
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