Abstract
This article examines news management by the French executive. With examples taken mainly from the Chirac presidency, it argues that the French executive has been influenced by the trend towards greater professionalisation of political communication in recent years and that its capacity to act as a ‘primary definer’ for the news media is significant. Nonetheless, the fragmentation of the core authorities, a certain bureaucratic resistance to public communication activities and a less deferential journalistic culture than in the past undermine the applicability of a ‘command and control’ model to news management in the contemporary era.
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