FRANCE: FRENCH NEWS MEDIA SILENT AS JOURNALISTS STRIKE FOR ONE DAY TO DRAW ATTENTION TO ILLS OF PRESS.

Record ID: 342103

  • Title: FRANCE: FRENCH NEWS MEDIA SILENT AS JOURNALISTS STRIKE FOR ONE DAY TO DRAW ATTENTION TO ILLS OF PRESS.
  • Date: 1st February 1972
  • Summary: 1. GV PAN Le Monde offices 0.08 2. LV INT Composing room 0.16 3. TV Idle printing presses(2 shots) 0.29 4. SV Matrices piled up 0.37 5. GV ORTF building 0.42 6. GV Radio Luxembourg building and sign (2 shots) 0.46 7. GV INT Empty studio and equipment (2 shots) 1.02 8. SV PAN Umanned telex machines 1.09 9. GV Street scene PAN TO newspaper stand selling only magazines and books (2 shots) 1.22 Initials BB/2315 JH/AW/BB/0056 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th February 1972 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA5VG6L0O4OVQAVCK4YNZA9YQA5
  • Story Text: Most of France's 12,000 journalists staged a 24-hour strike on Tuesday (1 February), halting publication of nearly all Paris and provincial newspapers, and reducing radio and television newscasts to a scanty minimum.

    The stoppage was to draw attention to the ills of the French press, in trouble because of declining advertising revenue, and to protest at redundancies caused by newspaper economy drives.

    Journalists of the state-run ORTF radio network cut their normal hourly bulletins to three newscasts. And two independent radio stations reduced news bulletins on a lesser scale.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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