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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Alternances politiques et transformations du champ de l'information en France après 1981
Contributor:
Juhem, Philippe
imprint:
PERSEE Program, 2001
Published in:Politix
Language:
French
DOI:
10.3406/polix.2001.1195
ISSN:
0295-2319
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Political alternation and changes in the field of information in France after 1981 </jats:p>
<jats:p>Philippe Juhem</jats:p>
<jats:p>This article wants to assess the effects of the changes in the left parties' political offer as soon as 1981 and chiefly from 1983 onwards and the « first stringency measures », upon the tranformation of the then considerd « of the left » newspapers' editorial line (Liberation, Le Matin de Paris, Le Monde). By modifying the indissociable political and commercial strategies the « left » papers were able to adopt and by initiating the process of the privatization of television, the arrival of a socialist government contributed to weakening the hold of political concepts over the journalistic comments, thus favoring a rather commercial policy. The evolution, however, of the « left » parties' political offer and the process of relative neutralization of the newspapers also contributed to modifying the opinion one might have about political struggles. The phenomenon known under the term of « decline of ideologies » whose effects can be seen both in the increasing scarcity of actors supporting the « left » parties' traditional views and the weakening of the actors' propensity to give them credit, is far from constituting an autonomous historical process, stemming from nobody knows which collective « new awareness » and -appears to be, on the contrary, the resuit of the ordinary working of the political game. Thus in 1981 the alternative government not only caused a reorganization of the public powers but also brought about the lasting modification of the agents' political beliefs and points of view.</jats:p>