Left-Wing Collusion Rocks France’s Public Media
23rd September 2025
The revelation to the French public of the close ties between certain public service journalists and the Left by the conservative magazine L’Incorrect sent shockwaves through the small world of French media, the effects of which are still being felt. Under these circumstances, reform of public broadcasting is more urgent than ever, especially since a report by the Court of Auditors has revealed its catastrophic management and the financial drain it represents for the public purse.
In early September, L’Incorrect magazine published a recording made in a Parisian café, revealing a conversation between France Inter state radio journalists Patrick Cohen and Thomas Legrand and Socialist Party executives, leaving no doubt about the degree of collusion between these figures and their concerted strategy to use the public media to push their electoral advantage at the expense of the Right.
Since then, the journalists in question, and behind them the management of the public broadcasting service—Radio France and France Télévisions—have been struggling painfully to restore their reputation, between attacks on whistleblowers and denials of bad faith.