The De Gaulle Presidency and the Media: Statism and Public Communications

✍ Scribed by Jean K. Chalaby

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For the first time, a comprehensive content analysis of the French press has been conducted in order to estimate as accurately as possible the opinion of the press about de Gaulle. It includes a comparison of de Gaulle's engagement in the public sphere with four American presidents who were his contemporaries: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 12
List of Illustrations......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Part I The Press......Page 24
1.1 The post-Liberation press......Page 26
1.2 The press during the de Gaulle presidency......Page 31
1.3 The effects of the presidency and television on the press......Page 43
2 Press Opinion during the de Gaulle Presidency......Page 46
2.1 The Paris-based newspapers......Page 47
2.2 The provincial press......Page 65
2.3 Current affairs magazines: Le Nouvel Observateur and L'Express......Page 72
2.4 Periodicals......Page 76
2.5 De Gaulle and the intelligentsia: the reviews......Page 78
2.6 Conclusions......Page 82
3.1 De Gaulle's comments on the press......Page 92
3.2 Relationship with journalists......Page 100
3.3 Origins of de Gaulle's opinion on the press......Page 103
Part II The Broadcasting Media......Page 106
4.1 The development of television in the 1940s and 1950s......Page 108
4.2 The national broadcaster as a Government Agency......Page 109
5 The National Broadcaster during the de Gaulle Presidency......Page 116
5.1 The broadcasting reforms......Page 117
5.2 The affair of La Caméra explore le temps......Page 127
5.3 Television and political struggle, 1965–68......Page 129
5.4 May 1968 at the ORTF......Page 134
5.5 Conclusion......Page 144
6.1 Means of control over the ORTF......Page 146
6.2 Power and information......Page 157
6.3 Access to television......Page 163
6.4 Public discourse domesticated......Page 169
6.5 State television versus public television......Page 170
Part III De Gaulle and the Process of Public Communications......Page 172
7.1 Broadcast addresses and interviews......Page 174
7.2 Press conferences......Page 181
7.3 A reluctant campaigner: candidate de Gaulle......Page 183
7.4 The origins of de Gaulle's communications strategy......Page 186
7.5 Conclusion......Page 199
8.1 Television and the process of state-building......Page 200
8.2 Television as an instrument of government......Page 203
8.3 Social cohesion and national identity......Page 205
8.4 Television as the ' voice of France'......Page 209
8.5 The Gaullist broadcasting policy and the opposition......Page 211
9.1 De Gaulle and his predecessors......Page 212
9.2 De Gaulle and contemporary American presidents......Page 221
Conclusion: a Statist Public Communications System......Page 230
Appendixes......Page 232
Notes......Page 240
References......Page 254
C......Page 266
D......Page 267
L......Page 268
P......Page 269
T......Page 270
Z......Page 271