Rebellion as Civic Duty — What Austria Can Learn from France

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In France, resistance is not a disruptive factor. It is a civic duty. This attitude is not a whim, not a national cliché, not a matter of temperament — it is the result of a history that has consistently repeated itself over centuries. Whoever wants to understand why millions of French people take to the streets for weeks over a pension reform, while in Austria a letter to the editor is at best what gets written, must know this history.

Who Controls the Controllers? Rebellion and Media in France and Austria

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Follow-up to: “Rebellion as Civic Duty: What Austria Can Learn from France”

The first article was about the streets — about the difference between a culture that understands protest as a civic duty and one that perceives it as a disturbance. But rebellion does not only take place on the streets. It takes place — perhaps even first — in the media. Or not at all.

The question is not only: who takes to the streets? But: who tells the story? Who decides what the public learns? And who pays for it?

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Rebellion as Civic Duty — What Austria Can Learn from France

Who Controls the Controllers? Rebellion and Media in France and Austria