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Article

27 Mar 2006

Author:
Claire Shine, Financial Times

Broadcasters cautiously hold a mirror to French society

...[In] March 2006...the leading private channel TF1 [announced] that Harry Roselmack, a 33-year-old journalist of Martinique descent, had been appointed stand-in presenter during national newsreading monument Patrick Poivre d’Arvor’s summer holiday...Dominique Baudis, director of the National Audiovisual Commission (CSA), [notes] “...there’s still a huge gap between the reality of French society and how it’s represented on television.”... In Britain, by contrast, it is estimated that more than 10 per cent of journalists at the BBC and commercial television are non-white. [also refers to France Télévisions, France 3 (part of France Télévisions), LCI (part of TF1)]

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