JFM:
In fact, I believe we're not disagreeing. At least not fully.
I wrote that France-Info is a state run station, not that it was taking orders from the gov.
Being state owned, it means exactly, in your own words: a mere hijacking of a tax-payer funded radio.
That said, I also wrote recently that the government does not need to issue orders anymore. The dramatic consensus, at least as far as foreign affairs are concerned, is total. There's hardly a dissenting voice in the big media, and the few ones get lost in the din.
By the way, I don't believe that the position of JC (yeah, ChIraq) are that far from those of the leftist thieves at France-Info. So there's definitely no order coming down.
They work hand in hand.