Political orientation of French and foreign newspapers

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3. Partial and totally unbalanced point of view – imposed by the Left and the Center who managed to have it shared by the great mass of public opinion: this truncated categorization consecrates the artificial ghettoization of the conservative Right and its media, assimilated to an extreme right with which they do not share most of the values and modes of action, while the left can integrate movements and media of the extreme left without firing a shot – evenus frequentables because they are officially rid of all accusations of extremism. And this is how the French, who we know are today mostly classified on the Right, can be led to vote piously for a President imposing on them a government bringing together a panel of personalities ranging from the radical Left to the center. ..

4. And the others ? You are only quoting Western media! The rest of the world does not exist? Their media don’t count? Yet they are in the majority! It is then feared that Science Po is narrow-minded, and centered on the white and liberal world. Your article becomes uninteresting because it is very incomplete. So get to work!

   1. Be serious. The article was interesting and comprehensive. Do you have nothing else to do with your time but not understand the purpose of this paper? The vast majority of people who read this article did so either to find out the political opinion of French newspapers, or in a school setting, hence the only representation of the languages mainly taught in France, namely German, English and Spanish. Your comment has no interest except to complain. You then perfectly represent the ideas of division instrumented by the extreme left to which you seem to adhere by using terms such as “the white and liberal world”

      1. I would not have liked to take such a dose of truth in my face like that. Well said David.

   2. Partly because the cultural difference with the rest of the world does not allow a left-right categorization understandable by the French. Already the American left and right correspond only vaguely to what is understood in France as left and right.

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6. “Courrier International” is strongly right-wing it seems to me… I have just read an article on Cuba and on May 1st at the moment, it speaks of Raul Castro as “…The leader of the dictatorship…”! !! For many people to speak of a “dictatorship” in Cuba is only anti-revolutionary and more particularly anti-communist propaganda hammered out for decades … you will never hear (or rather very little) from these people explain this to you in any hegemonic media since it is simply very disqualifying… On the other hand, when Cuba completely recasts its constitution with the participation of the entire population, you don’t hear a word of it, when at each election (there are more than in France) 90% of voters participate, it’s the same not a word, 150 hospitals 450 polyclinics, social and health indicators that are at the same level as rich countries (Cuba is registered as a Third World country) … With every positive thing nothing shines through, with every negative thing everything is exaggerated and biased and when you can’t hide a positive thing too much like here “a gathering on May Day of several hundred thousand Cubans in support of the revolution” we have right to stories where the Cubans are threatened to go support and even that they are sad and that I do not applaud!!! ^^ short for me Courrier International moves away from the Left by this simple fact.

   1. Dear rooter, Get off your couch and go to Cuba (not the beaches). Unless things have changed a lot (I went there several times in the 90s and 2000s) with Argentinian companions who were nevertheless close to the regime. It seemed to me to be a very beautiful dictatorship: systematic imprisonment of opponents, impossibility of access to certain trades if you are not from the party, denunciation campaigns with imprisonment as a result….

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8. Arte is still quite left in addition to being pro-European

   1. Exactly, that’s what I also find, even good left.

   2. Thank you Sarah, your comment is very fair and we have taken it into account. Thanks again !

9. Centrist BFM TV? Aren’t you kidding us?

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11. Thank you for this ranking … subjective. Subjective because everything depends on the zero point, this point corresponding to the center of the political spectrum. In fact your ranking is determined according to current media opinion but does not correspond to the standards of social and political history. Mitterand was a socialist and considered to be on the “left”. However, his program was much more to the left than that of Mélenchon, described as “extreme left” by the media. Main measures of the first Mitterrand government in 1981 and 1982:

    • -Increased minimum salary  of 10 %, family and housing allowances of 25 %, disabled allowance of 20 %.
    • creation of wealth tax
    • price freeze
    • nationalization of the first 36 deposit banks
    • nationalization of large industrial groups (Thomson, Saint Gobain, Rhone Poulenc, etc…)
    • 5th week of paid vacation
    • retirement at age 60
    • Auroux laws on labor law
    • etc.

    Mélenchon’s program pales in comparison…  Worse, in 1975, creation of the administrative authorization of dismissal, this measurement would be qualified as extreme left today, and still, even Mélanchon does not propose it. And yet this measure was taken by Chirac, then Prime Minister. In conclusion, France has shifted to the right as never before, certainly due to the trivialization of far-right discourse, largely taken up by the right, by the fall of the USSR, which represented a more favorable model for the workers, which was taken into account by Western governments through social measures in order to avoid too great an attraction for communism by the workers. Finally, do not forget the global neoliberal turn initiated by Reagan and Thatcher, privatization of whole sections of the economy: coal, railways, air, steel, telecommunications, gas, electricity, etc. Economic turn to the right. What is it to be on the left? Of rights? That is the question.

12. Valeurs Actuelles is a right-wing, conservative, some would say liberal-conservative, weekly. But to make it an “extreme right” media (an increasingly vague notion as it is regularly overused by the cultural left) is clearly excessive and the proof that the author did not take the time to read the production of VA in recent years. If the vagueness around the notion of extreme is recognized for the extreme left (cf. the correction around the statute of the Canard Enchainé), there is no concern to qualify “extreme right” of the media which do not are, neither in their own perception, nor in the majority perception of the public (the case of Cnews is typical, the far-right editorial line deserves to be clarified and, failing that, requalified). Similarly, and this has already been said, the absence of Mediapart, which is nevertheless a notorious left-wing extremist media, does not appear in the list. It would be good for right-wing political scientists to join the writing of this site if the latter wishes to offer verified information to its readers, especially when it comes to political tendencies in the media. Unless of course this site itself claims an unbalanced political alignment on the left, which would deserve to be explained if this were the case.

    1. Valeurs Actuelles is not just a right-wing weekly. On their Youtube channel alone, a lot of content is pro-gun and directly attacks the left, which a simple right-wing newspaper would not do.

    2. Do not worry the right is very present here.

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14. Probably an article written by a left-wing extremist who does not recognize any extreme media of this edge, and yet they are much more numerous and dangerous than their counterparts. I just learned a synonym for “extreme left”, the “protest left”, it’s better when you don’t assume your radicalism…

    1. Hello, Le Canard enchaîné was born on the left, anti-militarist and anarchist. Today, the extreme left expression does not say their political orientation well enough, they who now attack all parties indifferently. From where the expression left protester, to differentiate them for example from Humanity which we effectively qualified as extreme left. We are open to benevolent discussion, and suggest that you continue to provide here all the constructive and useful elements to shed light on the political trend of this newspaper.

       1. Humanity is not of the extreme left but simply of the original left (Jaurès). I bet you place Holland on the left.

15. Hello, while reading your article, I noticed that there are “extreme right” journals in your eyes but none “extreme left”. Yet Le Monde, Liberation, L’Obs are today on an editorialist line really on the far left of the political spectrum.

    1. The three dailies you mention are in no way extreme left.

       1. Not even Libé???

          1. uh Libé not on the left? Can you repeat the question?

       2. The world and Libé are really in a gray zone between left and extreme left. But there is also Mediapart which is on the far left.

          1. Your observation is constructive and meaningful. THANKS

          2. Le Monde, L’Obs and Libé from the far left, but it’s laughable. It would be so much to stop using the word extreme has all the sauces. These three media have called for voting yes to the ECT and therefore ratifying European neoliberal policies.

    2. Hello, We have taken your comment into consideration. Thank you for this useful contribution.

    3. Wow !!! I just discovered myself on the far left!!

       1. continue, Yes I discover myself to be on the far left after a weekly reading of Le Monde for almost 50 years! It’s still a bit far from my ideas and my political edge. subjectivity… It’s subjective!

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17. […] Political orientations of French and foreign newspapers – Academics in Politics. Whether for a foreign language test, a summary note, or for your personal reading, the articles you will have to decipher systematically have . They very often have a political aim, or when it is not deliberate they in any case retain a political color. Understanding the political positioning of the newspaper in question will allow you to determine more accurately and quickly in which political universe the author presents his arguments. Here is therefore a review of all the newspapers, according to their political orientation. To better understand what is called left or right, you will consult with interest this article on the question: → Understanding left-right political positions Will be exposed first the political tendencies of foreign newspapers, then the political tendencies of the French media . […]

18. […] by invoking a false ideological neutrality (how would centrism be neutral?!). Valeurs Actuelles and Marianne are the two emblematic French editorial staff assuming their day… When the right is in power it is Marianne who has a big sales success (under […]

19. France Info is not very central in my opinion.

    1. It’s the least we can say…:)

    2. centre-left maybe?

20. Hello I wanted to know what orientation is the newspaper ”ma gazette du var? THANKS

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22. The Cross is on the left??????? oO

    1. Damn, that pissed me off too! The ‘Catholic Left’ is as left as 3/4 of American Democrats… center left at best, but more likely centrist, or even center right on some issues.

23. The express is right? But what ignorance! I come to give you in-depth lessons on the history of French media whenever you want…

    1. Yes, we naturally want to classify the magazine on the far right, but CNews and Valeurs actuelless have reshuffled the cards so much, that it is no longer shocking that L’Express can be just on the right

       1. Pardon??! I do not think so, no.

24. What about French radio stations? Thank you for this article which I consult regularly.

25. france 2 left media ??? lol !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. lol

26. The “centre-right” positioning of the “left” American is absolutely wrong. American progressivism is the obvious source of inspiration for the majority of current French leftist movements. The principle of dividing society into communities that use and abuse the means of communication, marketing, media and various social networks to impose their demands is directly imported from the United States. See the femen, the Traore movement, #metoo and #balancetonporc, EELV (with their discriminatory posters on “OK boomers”), Usul and many others. These people would fit perfectly into the American Democratic mould. 30 years ago, when the French left was universalist, when it condemned racism regardless of the skin color of the victims and aggressors, when it placed humanism before all other causes, when it did not lower itself to use fear to make people act without reflection under the pretext of urgency, when she was adamant on women’s rights and against the religions that oppress them in fact, when she looked at each little question separately and did not did not wield “Science” in authority to support binary and global reasoning, in short, when the left was not the good guys and the bad guys, the good and the bad, the bigots against the supposed fachos, when it did not censor any opinion preferring to convince by reasoning rather than castigate and ban, so yes, perhaps, the French left did not resemble American progressivism. But that era is over. The absence of a political culture has made people bewilderingly gullible, condemning to death the traditional and historical left, the one that had inspired the world. Nature does not like a vacuum, a pale copy of American progressivism has taken over space and seized a youth who will bite their fingers later.

    1. The great fight of the American Democrats, at the moment, is to ensure that there is a health system accessible to all, a minimum of higher education accessible to all, some parental leave, and a minimum salary that make sure that the poorest don’t have to do 3 jobs to avoid having to choose between paying their rent or feeding their families. Socially, the US is 50 years behind France. Racial claims are real, but in a country that was legally apartheid until 1965 (end of major ‘Jim Crow’ laws – some lasted until 2018, notably in Mississippi, or are still in progress without necessarily being applied – others are being put back on the agenda, like in Texas), it is absolutely not comparable to what is happening in France. As for other social demands, particularly around sexuality, they affect very few people and are more symbolic than anything else. On the other hand, they are used and amplified at will by the American right to scare their ultra-conservative base and to raise funds. The extreme left in the US is not really represented by the Democrats, while the extreme right is very strongly represented by the Republicans.

    2. Amazed by your analysis and agree with you …. unfortunately … I fear the fall of French society in a few years!

27. So France left-wing televisions. Since the French are taxed for public channels, I refuse to pay the audiovisual tax for leftist ideologies.

    1. It’s true… it would be a shame to counter all the private media flirting more and more with the Nostril.

    2. Do you realize that now? Me too it bothers me.

28. Calling Cnews far-right is extreme! All opinions are expressed during the debates, all political formations!

    1. On the contrary, when you watch the Zemmour show there is no nuance, the presenter has an almost useless moderator role, the rest of the guests never discuss the substance.

       1. I agree with Claude, apart from the Zemmour show, there are even chroniclers who are fiercely opposed to the far right, I would rather say that it is the only channel that is not in leftist ideology dominate, that’s why she bothers!

       2. Cataloging Eric Zemmour as an extreme rightist is nonsense. What he defends is France and its roots. He loves France so much and unfortunately these days, this is less and less the case for the French. He deplores the fact that France has become the new homeland of unscrupulous migrants who do not want to integrate, who take advantage of our social system etc… Me, what I call extreme right is Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini etc. ..I share Eric Zémour’s ideas and you will also qualify me as a right-wing extremist. Yet I have always voted on the left (until the last elections), I like François Ruffin and so many others who defend widows and orphans. But I can’t stand the scum who invade France and who dream of appropriating our beautiful country. Go live in the suburbs, in all these lawless areas and you will change your opinion of Eric Zemmour.

          1. think exactly like you. It’s so convenient to stick a label on his forehead in an attempt to discredit him. Only more and more French people are following his show and more and more French people are realizing that he is only alerting what they see and experience every day!!! Now the media being 3/4 left (like science po by the way) can’t stand this talented whistleblower!!

          2. Thank you René, idea shared

          3. absolutely. You have to live and fit in in the warm suburbs; you change your mind very quickly

29. For 20 minutes, I confirm your ranking, I have just unsubscribed following comments deactivated for no reason, and others frankly extreme right pro-dictators, not deactivated!

30. Good morning, note that in the classification of the French press, newspapers have been classified as extreme right (rightly from my point of view, even if the interested parties finding the qualifier “extreme” pejorative refuse it and have invented their own names : “national right” for example), but that strangely no newspaper is classified as being of the extreme left, one speaks instead of “left communist” or “left protester”. Similarly, 2 media (France-info, Le Monde) would be “center-left”, but none “center-right”, as if it is being a little on the right, it was already being too much. Does this lack of symmetry in the classification reflect the ideological bias of Science Po where certain extreme left movements have infiltrated the faculty?https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/a-sciences-po-paris-l-ideologie-racialiste-fait-peu-a-peu-son-nid-20210110

    1. Also placing west france pro european, does not mean anything

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