A few kilometers behind Omaha beach and Utah beach, in the countryside, a new battle of Normandy took place, that of Camembert, the most emblematic of French cheeses, which has just resulted in the victory of the real Camembert! This conflict began about fifteen years ago and opposed on the one hand the lobby of …
“Public interest” or “interested public” ?
There can be no reflection on the press ethics without raising the question of finding a balance between press freedom and its regulation. Press freedom is one of the main public freedoms amongst freedom of speech and religion. It is guaranteed by international treaties and by fundamental legal texts in most democratic countries. It is …
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Commercial pressure : are journalist getting to be unethical ?
Journalists can succumb to guilty arrangements with their morals: a willingness to please, or not to displease, a radical desire to prove at all costs. There can be many bad reasons for this and they regularly threaten journalists' ethics if they are not careful. Unfortunately, these are not the only threats to their profession. There …
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What will be the new high-tech trends in the next 10 years ?
We had to wait until the beginning of this century to see the emergence of the new notion of exchange platform between consumers (listeners, Internet users, spectators) on one hand, advertisers and content providers, on another hand. We also notice the emergence of the notion of interdependence between the media content market and the advertising …
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Vogue : a snob magazine ?
Vogue is the reference fashion magazine which influence the World. Despite an ever- growing number of fashion magazines and dedicated online sites, Vogue stays the number one of the fashion magazine particularly because it has influenced fashion for more than one century and it has known how to evolve generation after generation. This fashion magazine …
Irish Healthcare versus EU average
A comparison of the Irish and French health care. The Irish health budget for 2020 is €17.4 billion for less than 5 million people, while France has €222.3 billion for the health budget for the same year and a population of 67 million. In overall terms, it is true that the French health budget is …
Irish hospitals under extreme stress
The experience of a young French student undergoing emergency surgery in Cork and faced with the near impossibility of receiving post-operative care in Ireland. It is said that Health is our most precious asset. It is probably in this sector that our expectations, in terms of quality of care and the seriousness of the care …
My grandfather is fascist
How would you react if you learnt that one of your family member had extreme political ideologies? Psychiatrists and psychologists have observed that the subjects of family secrets are infinitely varied. Births, deaths, transgressions of all kinds, misfortunes, deceptions, madness, disability, etc., are all subjects of family secrets. In fact, it is about everything that …
Members of the UK parliament refer to Facebook as the “digital gangster”
In a report published in 2019, the British parliamentarians did not hesitate to attack the Californian company head-on, judging it incapable of fighting “fake news” and abusing the exploitation of data. The MPs consider that the time for self-regulation for the network majors is over and that it is now necessary to put in place …
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A dead-end job
A story of a French grave digger. The town hall of a small town in the suburbs of Paris had the surprising idea to help financially young people if they contribute to a community service, not by helping children nor the homeless, but by having them remove the gravel paths in a graveyard. Working in a cemetery, …
