« As children are malleable beings, they must be taken from their parents to be re-educated, reprogrammed, reassigned, by the state, to regulate them for life under the banner of progress. They are confiscated from their d e l e t erious environment, their experience is best mastered by a long dressage, notably by preserving them from family influences, bourgeois and uneducated (in a word: right), and they are conditioned to give their all for the consumer society `concept from the "left" (Jean Baudrillard) which is inspired by Keynesian theory (relaunch by demand) , the rotten fruit of state politics or connivance capitalism`, not forgetting to vote for the "forces of progress". (Ch. VI AT THE DRESSAGE SCHOOL p. 231-232) »

« Plenel took what paid the best at zero: liaison officer, then political commissioner. To play Big Brother, to become the Herald of the Party, fanaticism is the only qualification required. He can afford forgeries as he can afford to write wrongly or have the political sense of a lymphatic lepidoptera: "There will be no Manuel Valls prime minister, it is impossible," he predicted three days before his appointment. His only power has always been moral, and that's all that matters. At the head of a "World", where scheming and clientelism flourished, Plenel distributed a little of his hatred - very personal - of Mitterand to each of his employees, organized his little entism, until making the "World" the most ideological newspaper of the country, the "reference daily" of the Party. So when the editorial board organizes internal elections, during the presidential elections, it is always the extreme left that wins. As might be expected in such cases, the atmosphere within the editorial staff is childish and democratic, "between police surveillance and public denunciation. . . . There are all the working characteristics of a totalitarian institution in the "World", Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen tell us, in "The Dark Side of the World", a dissection of the Plenel system, "from counter-power to the abuse of power", which led to his expulsion from the newspaper, in addition to the fall in sales and an inexplicable "crisis of confidence" within the editorial staff. (Ch. IV JOURNALITRISM p. 130-131) »

« You believe in human kindness, I presume? It does not occur to you that if the ideal of "sharing," "solidarity" or "gift" is on everyone's lips political and media, it is because it pays off? I told you, every act has a motive. (Ch. II THE WORLD PERDU p. 67) »