Upload:13 May 2019, Last update: 28 May 2019
Media distrust of citizens is one of the topics often talked in French society. This aspect can be seen in the Yellow vests movement. In my impression, more French people do care the influence of media.
Some Yellow vests demonstrators participated in “marche sur les médias” on 27 April[1] which comes from the media distrust among French people.
Especially BFMTV whose reporters were attacked before boycotted on 7 January[2]. Before that, the reporters of BFMTV were attacked for example, in Rouen on 5 January[3].
The violences of demonstrators is not acceptable.
But in terms of media literacy of its citizens, people in French society is not obedient to mainstream media, they try to analyze information.
Mainstream media is useful to get dairy information, but it is not wise to completely trust them. The severe eyes of citizens to media facilitates the media to think about themselves. Even some TV programs of France Télévisions themselves have fact-checking parts. Many French people care the media problems like independency or arbitrariness. Among Japanese, it feels like that more people are obedient to media and just receiving information as it is. Being obedient to information is risky and easily manipulated when it happens.
More citizens in French society tend to think about the information from media, not receiving it as it is.
[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/04/27/deux-jours-apres-les-annonces-de-macron-les-gilets-jaunes-mobilises-a-paris-et-strasbourg_5455740_3224.html Accessed 13 May 2019
[2] http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/tv/pourquoi-les-journalistes-de-bfmtv-boycottent-les-gilets-jaunes-ce-lundi-07-01-2019-7982478.php Accessed 13 May 2019
[3] http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/journalistes-agresses-par-des-gilets-jaunes-a-rouen-j-ai-eu-l-impression-qu-ils-voulaient-en-decoudre-06-01-2019-7982001.php Accessed 13 May 2019
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