Vincent Bolloré's Strategy to Turn Media and Publishers into Propaganda Tools (lemonde.fr)

• Sapiro dismisses the view of Nora's firing as a simple financial event.
• She highlights the political and ideological danger of the move.
• Bolloré is accused of systematically turning media into propaganda tools.

"Sociologist Gisèle Sapiro rejects the idea that the dismissal of Grasset publisher Olivier Nora is a mere 'epiphenomenon in the history of financial capitalism', stressing the political and ideological threat this decision poses. She argues it is part of a deliberate strategy by Vincent Bolloré to convert media and publishing houses into instruments of propaganda."