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Welcome to the explanation from the BBC World Service.
This is Rosette Gins and me, Katie Razzle, and this is The Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast-changing media landscape.
This week on The Media Show, why the French Prime Minister has turned to YouTube and podcasting.
A new editor has been announced at American Vogue.
and lessons for today's journalists from the reporter who made his name interviewing the dictators of the 1930s.
In France,
the prime minister has called a surprise confidence vote weeks after proposing dramatic budget cuts,
which includes scrapping some public holidays and freezing public spending.
Francois Beirut has launched a YouTube channel and taken to podcasting in an attempt to win support for his plans.
Meanwhile, a protest movement called Block en 2, which translates as Let's Block Everything,
has been mobilising online, with a national day of action set for September 10th.
Hugh Scofield is Paris correspondent for BBC News and he's been watching how it's playing out in the French media.
They all have their particular political access to grind, whether you're on the left,
the Liberation, the Monde, or the right with the Figaro and others.
But, I mean, there's a consensus that this is a,
you know, yet more crisis added on crisis and that...
If we're not in a kind of free revolutionary state quite,
that kind of vocabulary is beginning to appear.