In 1995, François Mitterrand appointed him Director of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, and in 2001 led the International Francophone Press Union.

[8] However, he was charged with aiding the rebellion of Hocine Aït Ahmed the following year, and he fled to the mountains of Kabylie.

However, after much pleading by the likes of Monsignor Duval, Edmond Michelet, Bernard Stasi, Jacques Chirac, and Abdelaziz Bouteflika, he was released.

He appeared in the documentary Algérie : naissance d'une nation (1956-1962) in 2003, and published a retrospective on television in 2005, titled Sur la télé : mes 4 vérités.

In 2012, he wrote the documentary L'Algérie à l'épreuve du pouvoir, directed by Jérôme Sesquin.

[11] Bourges was often made fun of by the satirical show Les Guignols for his moralistic views on the French audiovisual landscape.