"It's starting to look like a funeral": in Paris, the mobilization of public broadcasting culminated in the rejection of the Dati reform in the Assembly

"For us, there is something incomprehensible. Radio France and France Télé have quite respectable results." Under the scorching Paris sun and his gray panama hat, Force Ouvrière union representative Guillaume Baldy struggles to understand this attempt at reforming the audiovisual sector. "It's a project that is not structured and that claims to provide solutions that are not supported." The incomprehension is embodied by these employees of France Télévisions, Radio France, INA and France Médias Monde, mobilized at the call of the unions this Monday, June 30, a few hours before the text was finally rejected outright , even before its examination.

A first victory for the employees of the four public companies, who had gathered en masse on the Place du Palais-Royal in Paris. "It's starting to look like a funeral for the reform," Lionel Thompson, CGT Radio France union representative, enthused to Libération after learning of the text's rejection. "It's a snub for