21 January 2016 | The role of RTS and journalist Yves Steiner denounced by an investigation in the German-language press
In a lengthy investigation, Weltwoche reveals the dubious actions and complicity of Yves Steiner, an RTS journalist who has since gone into the service of the Swiss Confederation, in the cyber-attack that allegedly targeted two journalists in French-speaking Switzerland in March 2014. The most troubling aspect of this case is that Yves Steiner is at both the front and the back of the line. [...]
21 January 2016 | Massive media dysfunction on the back of Dominique Giroud
This case would be laughable if it weren't so dismaying. It is a shining example of the weaknesses of a certain type of journalism practised in French-speaking Switzerland. Above all, it proves once again that some journalists abandon all restraint when it comes to bashing and ridiculing Dominique Giroud and his companies. The only problem in this case is that these journalists [...]
24 June 2015 | The zeal of the Swiss Trade Commission leaves one wondering
Ah, media pressure! How many have not succumbed to it in the past? The Swiss Control of the Wine Trade (CSCV) now belongs to the category of weak institutions that kowtow to the media. The directors of the CSCV panicked and lost their wits. They published false figures and [...]
9 June 2015 | The brilliant ex-journalist Yves Steiner's case dismissed by the courts
Dominique Giroud reserves the right to bring a civil action for damages against Swiss television and the newspaper Le Temps. In this context, an administrative formality was completed at the end of 2014: the interruption of the statute of limitations through a letter signed by Le Temps (a nota bene letter that does not represent a [...]
17 February 2015 | The courts find serious "shortcomings" in the RTS report at the root of the Giroud affair
RTS journalist Yves Steiner did a very poor job. The nine members of the Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television (AIEP) are unanimous in recognising the errors in his report, broadcast on 6 December 2013, which triggered the media frenzy against Dominique Giroud. The AIEP has identified three main "shortcomings": firstly, the [...]
13 January 2015 | All this for nothing? The Cogest report gives birth to a mouse
"L'Etat du Valais a presque tout fait juste" (ATS). "A report spares the State of Valais" (24 Heures). "Good report for the State of Valais" (La Liberté). "Report favourable to the State of Valais" (L'Agefi). "Le ministre Tornay disculpé" (Le Temps). Similar headlines appeared in the German and Ticino press. The Walliser Bote devoted [...]
24 December 2014 | Day 20, how will the media react to the Cogest report?
Journalists like to be right. What does a journalist do when he discovers that he was wrong at 80%? They point out that they were right at 20%. That's just the way it is. Which raises a legitimate question: what's going to happen on 13 January 2015 when the Valais Grand Council's management committee (the Cogest) publishes its report [...]?
23 December 2014 | Le Temps and RTS go wild
As a reminder: Dominique Giroud made a tax error. He has acknowledged this error. He said it was unacceptable. He has publicly expressed his regrets. He undertook to reimburse the amounts he had misappropriated. He was convicted by the courts. Fault-regrets-conviction-reparation. The case is closed. But not for everyone. In his [...]
16 December 2014 | Le Matin Dimanche refuses to correct an error
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14 December 2014 | There was never any Fendant in St-Saphorin (encore)
Dominique Giroud's reaction to the article in Le Matin Dimanche on 14 December 2014: On 3 December 2014, Dominique Giroud announced that, following an in-depth investigation, the courts had established that he had not tampered with his wine and that "the content of the St-Saphorin bottles complied with the applicable legislation". In the interview [...]