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We must live in a very very different place then. In my country (France) the national medias (press, TV, radio) are all but left oriented. The fact that free speech is nominally guaranteed by law doesn’t means that in practice anything outside the politically correct views can be expressed. The self-censorship is heavy, and campaigns against wrongthink are numerous and fierce.




Le Figaro is mainstream and not at all left-oriented.


Being left is not mutually exclusive with being mainstream. The NY Times is perhaps the classic example of a left-oriented establishment paper.


I don’t understand what this has to do with my comment. I was just pointing out an example of a mainstream conservative paper in France, not claiming that left-leaning papers don’t exist.

(I don’t read NYT enough to know whether it’s left-oriented, so I’ll take your word for it).


I think maybe I misread your comment, then. I thought you were saying that Le Figaro is mainstream and therefore not left-associated, as if these were separate categories.


The person I was responding to claimed that media in France is “all but left-oriented”. I was providing a major counterexample.




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