Is France’s most popular news channel, CNews, a hotbed of Nazis and clerical fascists? Well, judging by a cartoon which has been published by the weekly French TV guide and magazine Télérama, the answer would appear to be “yes”. The cartoon shows Pascal Praud, one of the channel’s best-known presenters, dressed in the brown uniform of the Nazi paramilitary organisation, the SA, and saying, “On CNews we are pluralists, we have all the shades from brown to black!”
So, how exactly are CNews presenters and commentators supposed to be like Nazis or clerical fascists? Well, apart from the fact that some of them are indeed Catholic – like roughly two-thirds of the French population – this frequent viewer of CNews, who also happens to be fluent in German and to have spent a good portion of his adult life studying and writing on German fascism, does not have a clue…
For the details and some reflections on why CNews might be in the crosshairs of the French establishment, see my new article at The Daily Sceptic here.
Wasn' t there something similar already in Vichy?