SOCIETY: The Minister of Culture wants subjects on the French overseas territories to be broadcast on France 2 news 

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The Minister of Culture was heard by the Senate Committee on Culture and the Senate delegation to overseas last week on the subject of "representation and visibility of overseas in the public audiovisual sector".

"It is not normal for the television news to mention Mayotte, New Caledonia or Reunion for example, only when these areas are bad," says Franck Riester.

"For the audiovisual sector to speak to all, the public audiovisual sector must speak of all and that it speaks of all on channels watched by all", admits the man for whom the France Télévisions group has not done until then, that "confining the archipelago of France to the periphery instead of placing it at the center of the programs that the French are watching".

It wishes to pursue the reform of public broadcasting to offer better visibility of overseas territories on the channels. In particular, he wants topical issues concerning the overseas territories to be included in France 2 news.

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