No idea. Translated Democracy is all about appearances. Is the French Press free? If the answer is yes then it satisfies the democratic standards. The trustworthy relation credibility between the Press and the People which characterises Democracy doesn't belong to their understanding of the democratic standards.

Know what I mean?

We know the gov can fail the People for all kinds of reasons running from hiding failures to re election motivated policies and our understanding of the Democracy leads us to rely on the Press to be the accurate witness and ready strong whistleblower alerting the People it must step in. Every time the Press gets ahead of itself and undermine the trust the People invested to satisfy a political bias, a ill inspired understanding of the People mindset or an overplayed risk of ill reactions, it scores higher against Democracy than the terrorist act itself.

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