Arrêt sur images ("Freeze-frame", also abbreviated as the acronym ASI) was initially a weekly French television program, created and presented by journalist Daniel Schneidermann and broadcast on La Cinquième from 1995 (renamed France 5 in January 2002) to 2007 and produced by Carrere group.
[2] From 2008 until 2014, Arrêt sur images chose to pay only 2.1% in VAT as the law imposes on the print press.
[citation needed] "The principal vocation of @rrêt sur images is reflecting critically on media.
"[citation needed] Notable guests on the program have included politician and former minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement,[4] economist Frédéric Lordon,[5] economist Jacques Sapir,[6] Éric Coquerel (political coordinator of the Left Front party),[6] politician and former minister Jean-Luc Mélenchon,[7] filmmaker François Ruffin,[5] also editor-in-chief of Fakir, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu,[8] former Charlie Hebdo satirist Luz.
[9] Schneidermann's guests are not always famous and have included secondary-school teachers, political anthropologists,[10] union, and religious leaders.