The head of France’s biggest film producer, Canal+, said Sunday that the group would no longer work with 600 industry professionals who signed a petition against right-wing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré. Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen, Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University, highlights the risk of media concentration, saying that “France has always perhaps had a naive view of regulation of politics in media”.
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