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By making it more reliant on tax money, which can be easily cut, and less able to guarantee its funding and to carry out independent journalism. so, you know, macron may be doing this as a vote winner, but actually, whenever politicians say we need to replace the licence fee with something else, we need to be very wary about what their intentions actually are. chris curtis from broadcast, if i bring you back in, i saw that broadcast was reporting this afternoon that one of the big french tv bosses has claimed that a le pen victory would mean french state tv assets being sold to a billionaire. ...

Dominic, just to bring you back in because you froze, unfortunately, at a crucial moment when you were talking about notjust france, finland and sweden, but also, you know, the anglophone bias of ourjournalism. i think it's partly because of the way foreign journalism has grown up over the years, and it was never intended to be for a global audience. but also, i think that if you spend any time working as a foreign correspondent for the us or the british media, you get constantly told again and again that you need to speak to an american or a british audience, and that's very true. but what we...

Said he would do away with their equivalent of the licence fee. just tell us a bit more about that, because that's obviously very interesting and topicalfor us here, too. well, this is something that macron has said, and he's not alone in saying this. all across europe, politicians are playing with this idea because the licence fee is seen as an unfairtax by a lot of people. and actually, nowadays it's unenforceable. the republic of ireland at the moment is having huge problems enforcing its licence fee and as a result, its public broadcaster is really strapped for cash. you know, this is also...

And he's not alone in saying this. all across europe, politicians are playing with this idea because the licence fee is seen as an unfair tax by a lot of people. and actually, nowadays it's unenforceable. the republic of ireland at the moment is having huge problems enforcing its licence fee and as a result, its public broadcaster is really strapped for cash. you know, this is also a policy that was taken from the national rally as well. so, this was a this was something that was put out there, and macron has decided this is something that he can do, which he thinks will be popular. he's sugge...

Bias of ourjournalism. i think it's partly because of the way foreign journalism has grown up over the years, and it was never intended to be for a global audience. but also, i think that if you spend any time working as a foreign correspondent for the us or the british media, you get constantly told again and again that you need to speak to an american or a british audience, and that's very true. but what we're seeing now, and this is why the le monde experiment is so interesting, is a transnational, english—speaking public that is very, very curious to hear different lines from what they u...