“Journalists spreading fake news”. Drawing by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, 1894. Frederick Burr Opper/Wikimedia

“Journalists spreading fake news”. Drawing by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, 1894. Frederick Burr Opper/Wikimedia

Covid, Ukraine, Gaza : The Lost Honor of Journalists

Would the dice be loaded? Would global information now be controlled by a few planetary industrial groups? The question is raised with each election, with each crisis, in the United States, in France, and elsewhere. Social networks and lobbies have taken control of our brains.

Pascal Deshayes, President of Coordination Rurale 54 (Photo CR54)

Pascal Deshayes, President of Coordination Rurale 54 (Photo CR54)

The president of Coordination Rurale 54: “They have nothing left to lose”.

Pascal Deshayes, President of the Coordination Rurale de Meurthe-et-Moselle, explains the reasons behind French farmers’ bloodbath: drought, floods, crop failures, epizootic diseases, unfair competition from foreign producers, and insane middlemen’s margins. “60% of farms have no cash flow”, he says. Interview.