According to a study carried out by Viavoice* for the Assises du journalisme de Tours, published this Saturday, more than half of French people (57%) consider the information provided by journalists during the presidential campaign “good”.

Only 11% of respondents believe that the information provided was "very bad" and 25% find it "fairly bad", according to this survey carried out in partnership with France Télévisions, France Médias Monde,

Le Journal du Dimanche

and Radio France .

Distrust of far-right voters

Among French people satisfied with the coverage given by the media, 8% believe that the information provided was “very good” and 49% “fairly good”.

The differences are very clear according to the candidate acclaimed by the respondents in the first round of the presidential elections.

Thus, 79% of the voters of the outgoing president, Emmanuel Macron, believe that the information was "good", followed by 68% of the voters of the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot and 59% of those of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France insoumise) .

On the other hand, at the other end of the spectrum, the voters of far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour show the strongest distrust of the media: 62% of them consider the quality of information to be "poor". during the presidential campaign.

They are followed by the voters of RN candidate Marine Le Pen (53%) and those of LR candidate Valérie Pécresse (45%).

Television, the most used channel

The split is also visible according to the age of the respondents: those aged 60 and over are those who have the most confidence in the information provided: 65% of them consider it "good", compared to only 48% among young people. between 18 and 24 years old.

Television remains the channel most used to get information during the presidential campaign: 75% of respondents cite this medium first, followed by radio (38%) and the written press (37%).

Internet (online newspapers, news sites, blogs, influencers, YouTube channels) comes just after with 33%, according to this study where several answers were possible hence a total greater than 100%.

* This 6th edition of the Viavoice/Les Assises barometer on the usefulness of journalism was carried out online just after the second round of the presidential election, from April 25 to 27, with a sample of 1,000 people, representative of the French population adult, according to the quota method.

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