They made a poll at some point, may be I'll find a link if there is one, and 80% of French journalists declared themselves leftwing.
(btw you forget to mention Marianne, NouvelObs', Liberation, Monde, Le Parisien, l'Express, Challenge ) Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
But they seem to have come to their senses (inasmuch a major American news outlet can be said to have come to its senses recently) around 2005, when it was obvious to everybody that Vietraq was gonna end in Peace with Honour. Whereas the genuine neocon house organs like the New York Post or Washington "Moonie" Times... not so much.
You may colour me unsurprised that Time Magazine supported Bush and now supports Obama. Time always supports The Powers That Be. They know which side their bread is buttered on; mistake that for conviction at your peril.
The others, I conceded, so didn't mention. Though Libération and Le Monde have certainly moved rightwards over the past thirty years, as they have become progressively more in hock to big investors.
My point is that your sweeping generalisation that journalists are "leftwing" doesn't hold good. It's an often-stated narrative meant to somehow dilute the power of big money and rightwing ideology over the press. In other words, one of the means of shifting the Overton Window.
