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Article: MEDIA: It's like BAE buying `The Daily Telegraph'. Incroyable! Newspapers - `Le Figaro', France's voice of the right, has fallen into the hands of an arms manufacturer. John Lichfield reports
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2004
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Imagine if 75 per cent of the American press were owned by
Lockheed- Martin and Boeing. Imagine if 75 per cent of the British
press were owned by BAE Systems. Imagine if the people who ran those
companies were also among the biggest supporters of President George
Bush or Prime Minister Tony Blair.
There would, one presumes, be an enormous, political outcry
against the control of the media by the political-military-
industrial establishment.
Something of this kind has just happened in France. The outcry has
been muted and restricted largely to journalists and the few
remaining independent media organisations.
The Dassault group, makers of the Mirage fighter plane and other
military ...