The National Broadcaster during the de Gaulle Presidency

Abstract

This chapter examines the national broadcaster during the de Gaulle presidency. Section 5.1 analyses the reforms of 1959 and 1964 and their impact on the national broadcaster. Section 5.2 focuses on the affair of La Caméra explore le temps that broke out in spring 1965; Section 5.3 gives an account of the political struggles surrounding the national broadcaster that took place between 1965 and 1968. Section 5.4 relates the unfolding of the May 1968 crisis at the offices of the national broadcaster. This institution was itself among the stakes at play during the students’ and workers’ revolt and in addition was in the throes of its very own internal crisis.