The staff of a hitherto moderate newspaper in France are on strike because a right-wing extremist is to become their boss. Insights into a media landscape in which only a few remain calm.
No Journal du Dimanche this Sunday, at all kiosks in France, the place where the corresponding stacks are usually left empty. The journalists of France’s only national Sunday newspaper went on strike on Thursday. 96 percent of the employees are dissatisfied with the change in the chief editorship. They found out about it at the same time as all the other French people, when the daily newspaper on Thursday morning Le Monde pushed an exclusive message: Geoffroy Lejeune should take over the leadership.