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Mediapolis: What Words To Use To Counter The National Front?

Former Political Science and constitutional law Professor Olivier Duhamel is also a radio host on "Mediapolis," a weekly hour-long show that deciphers the way media and politics intermingle. 

Martial Foucault, Director of the CEVIPOF at Sciences Po and Cécile Alduy were his guests on March 14, 2015, to discuss how politicians and the media feel trapped regarding how to talk about the National Front: "diabolize" it and its sympathizers will show even stronger support for it, or treat it like any other party and risk downplaying its radical, xenophobic agenda. 

A segment by Delphine Legouté takes apart one of Marine Le Pen’s talking point: a meteoreological euphemism to describe how her relations to her father are “like the weather in Brittany”.

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