Environment: CNews' Request for Formal Notice Addressed to the Arcom
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Negation of warming, denigration of wind turbines... Quotaclimate and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation point out this Monday, October 5 in a report the biased treatment of environmental issues on the chain of Vincent Bolloré. For political scientist Théodore Tallent, one of the co-authors, the Arcom must ensure the plurality of points of view.
This study is "based on a limited scope and questionable methodological choices", says CNews in a press release, asserting itself "attached to editorial freedom and pluralism." Nearly 70 hours of programmes broadcast in July 2025 on the four continuous news channels (with BFMTV, LCI and franceinfo) were analysed by specialists from the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, a think tank close to the left, and from QuotaClimat, an association committed to clima…
A report by the QuotaClimat association and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation points to the invisibility of environmental issues on continuous information channels. The association has decided to seize the Arcom on this subject.
Read the full article on stephaneLarue.com A 75-hour study in July 2025 identifies 63 cases of climate misinformation on CNews, which challenges "debatable methodological choices".
With the Jean Jaurès Foundation, QuotaClimat viewed 75 hours of environmental footage on four continuous news channels in July 2025. The association seized the Arcom for CNews' failure to comply with its obligations regarding pluralism.
The association examined the place of the environment on CNews. Finding: low airtime and lack of adversariality. It announced that it would seize the Arcom for failing to comply with the requirement of strictness and honesty of information and pluralism.
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