BBC NEWS | French media in referendum 'bias' row

"'Publicly-owned media in France are broadcasting sheer propaganda to the public, and this absence of any pluralism or any attempt to represent and discuss the point of view of those who want to vote No to the Treaty is profoundly undemocratic'"

Interesting to see that the debate regarding "public television" in France is largely the opposite critique of that in the US.

Whereas the new Nixonian CPB chairman claims that PBS is demonstrating a "liberal" (sic) bias, the French public media are claiming a "pro-yes" bias, largely interpreted as a "pro-business" bias.

This is perhaps one of the most flagrant and fundamental differences between French and US culture: the knee-jerk reaction in the US is always towards an ultra-neocon-capitalism and it's usually hard to get voters to think realistically about this attitude. In France, on the other hand, the usual reaction is toward socialism. We see this all the more during the transport strikes which usually are viewed quite favorably by the majority of the population.