Defending independent journalism by Edwy Plenel: creation of the Mediapart website

Defending independent journalism by Edwy Plenel: creation of the Mediapart website

Edwy PLENEL will soon create a MediaPart information site. At the origin of the project, the desire to allow the existence of journalism completely independent of political and economic powers. Currently the written press is subject to many pressures: buybacks followed by social plans. He believes that the links between the owners of the titles "the oligarchy that is at the heart of this system" and the current political power have never been stronger. Another issue is to question the role of journalists. "We cannot conceive a media without thinking about the place of reader". The job of journalist is the work on information that involves investigating, going into the fields, questioning. However, he believes that public debate is not the property of journalists: "freedom of expression does not belong only to journalists".

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File : Edwy Plenel

Publication date : 5 January 2008