The campaign to destroy GB News in Britain is precisely mirrored by a campaign to eliminate CNEWS, its French equivalent.
The French political and media establishment would dearly like to shut down CNEWS which has overtaken #BFMTV (ipso facto BF Macron TV) as the most watched news station here.
The campaign against CNEWS is intensifying since the channel has started routinely beating its establishment competitors. This seems also to be the case with GB News.
The station’s refusal to conform to the groupthink of the establishment Parisian media blob is driving the bien-pensants mad. The accusation that it’s an extreme-right disinformation machine is absurd. It tilts right, but no more than all the other stations tilt left. It’s oppositional, just as its rivals tend to line up behind whoever is in power.
Owned by Vincent Bolloré, a traditional Catholic and by default France’s most politically incorrect tycoon, CNEWS has assembled a star cast of presenters of whom the most impressive is the whippet-smart, Guadeloupe-born Christine Kelly, whose prime time show goes where the other networks tread lightly.
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