HealthUpdate🇫🇷France3d agoFrance's film industry is reeling after its biggest production company – Canal+, owned by right-wing billionaire Vincent Bolloré – announced it would no longer work with some 600 professionals who signed a petition opposing Bolloré and the "grip of the far right" on cinema. The fallout is highlighting some uncomfortable truths about the industry's reliance on one company.3.1/10·France 24 EnglishPrimary Source ↗
HealthUpdate🇫🇷France3d agoThe head of France's biggest film producer, Canal+, said Sunday that the group would no longer work with 600 industry professionals who signed a petition against right-wing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University, highlights the risk of media concentration, saying that "France has always perhaps had a naive view of regulation of politics in media".3.1/10·France 24 EnglishPrimary Source ↗Details →