France’s public broadcasting media apparatus is facing calls for privatisation after two state-funded journalists were caught on hidden camera allegedly strategising with senior Socialist Party officials over the upcoming presidential and Paris mayoral elections.

Shockwaves were sent through the French political and media landscapes following the publication of explosive hidden camera footage from a July meeting between France Inter radio presenters Patrick Cohen and Thomas Legrand [pictured above], and Socialist Party national council leader Luc Broussy, as well as Socialist MEP Pierre Jouvet.

The recording of the meeting was published by the right-wing monthly L’Incorrect , which claimed that the objective of the collaboration was to ensure the defeat of centre-right Culture Minis

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