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Cash Investigation

Cash Investigation is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Cash Investigation rather than just read about it. In short: This article is a partial translation of the Cash investigation article on the French Wikipedia. The image and some of the information it contains were drawn from there.

Key takeaways

Cash Investigation belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Cash Investigation to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Cash Investigation from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

This article is a partial translation of the Cash investigation article on the French Wikipedia. The image and some of the information it contains were drawn from there.

Cash Investigation is a French television news show. It produces investigative reports in the financial and business space. The investigations cover subjects such as greenwashing, neuromarketing and child labor. They also take on the diversion of public funds, tax evasion, lobbyist influence, conflicts of interest and information manipulation by spin doctors. Put out by the Premières Lignes ('Front Lines') production group, Luc Hermann and veteran journalist Paul Moreira, the broadcast operates in the tradition of such investigation news shows as 60 Minutes, Panorama, Frontline and Enquête ('Inquiry').

Premières Lignes Prizes 2016 International Current Affairs and Social Documentary Film Festival 2016 - Scam prize for investigation 2015 Press’Tival - Gilles Jacquier Grand Prize - for The unspeakable secrets of our telephones Prix de l'investigation DIG Awards

2015 DIG Awards - Prize for European Investigation 2015 Data Journalism Awards - top prize for LuxLeaks (ICIJ and Edouard Perrin of Cash Investigation) 2015 non-profit Anticor's Prize for Ethics 2014 Press International - Grand Prize 2014 Ilaria Alpi Prize for international investigation 2014 Best Magazine Les Lauriers de l’Audiovisuel (Audiovisual Laurels) 2013 Le Parisien - Best Magazine Star 2013 Media Grand Prize—CB News 2012 European Louise Weiss European prize, decryption category

Broadcasts Each episode of season 1 (in 2012) also contained, in its second half, a portrait of a whistleblower. When the broadcast faced cancellation , viewers organized an online petition demanding its reinstatement. The show returned in June 2013. Season 2 had five episodes. The report on tax evasion, broadcast in primetime following the Cahuzac scandal, was a critical and audience success. In season 3 the show broadcast regularly in primetime on Tuesday evenings. In July 2015, Premières Lignes put the program's broadcasts online on YouTube. In season 3, the team for the first time produced an investigation specifically designed for the internet. Broadcast on Francetvinfo.fr, Ces entreprises qui vendent des systèmes de sécurité aux pires dictatures de la planète (These organizations that sell security systems to the worst dictatorships on the planet) completed the investigation outlined on the Business de la peur (The Business of Fear), broadcast of September 21, 2015. France 2 ordered a fourth season from Premières Lignes, with the first numbers due to be broadcast in 2016. Cash Investigation episodes are available online for a month after broadcast at pluzz.fr

Season 1 (2012)

Season 2 (2013)

Season 3 (2014-2015)

Season 4 (2015-2016)

Season 5 (2016-2017)

Credits

Controversies In June 2012 the World Wildlife Fund sued France 2 to prevent broadcast of an interview of the NGO's management. The courts ruled in favor of France 2. On October 2, 2013, the program revealed that the French government had fined the training arm of Jardiland 3.2 million euros in September 2012. The issue was fraudulent transactions concerning hundreds of false training certificates issued between 2007 and 2011. The certificates allowed them to illegally receive subsidies from professional training organizations. Jardiland announced it would bring a defamation suit against France Télévisions, publicly accusing the Cash investigation report of presenting false information. In April 2015 more than a year later, Jardiland withdrew its suit. In 2015, Rachida Dati criticized the broadcast for the questions it raised about a possible link between Rachida Dati and the Engie corporation (formerly GDF-Suez). In 2015, Élise Lucet took part in a demonstration by the collective named "Informer n’est pas un délit" (Informing is not a crime) against a proposed French law defining trade secrets an amendment to the Loi pour la croissance, l'activité et l'égalité des chances économiques (Law for growth, activity and equality of economic opportunity), known as the "Loi Macron". She opposed the measure because it would hamper the production of broadcasts like Cash investigation. A book was scheduled for publication in 2015 After the February 2, 2016 broadcast of Produits chimiques, nos enfants en danger (Chemical products, our children in danger), the Association française pour l'information scientifique (AFIS) (French Association for Scientific Information) issued a press release claiming that the documentary misled viewers. It cited the transformation of the summary of the European Food Safety Authority, which said: "Plus de 97 % des aliments contiennent des résidus de pesticides dans les limites légales dont 54.6% ne contiennent aucun résidu détectable" (More than 97% of foods contain pesticide residues within legal limits; 54.6 of these contain no detectable trace), into "Plus de 97 % des aliments contiennent des résidus de pesticides" (More than 97% of foods contain pesticide residues). Several weeks later AFIS returned to the subject, in a more detailed article, Comment les téléspectateurs ont été abusés par 'Cash Investigation'. The disputed number is cited once at the beginning of the episode.

References

External links Production website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Cash Investigation

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Cash Investigation claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Cash Investigation before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Cash Investigation ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Cash Investigation

In research: Cash Investigation appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Cash Investigation in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Cash Investigation is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2012 French television series debuts, French television news shows, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Cash Investigation outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Cash Investigation in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Cash Investigation means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Cash Investigation in simple terms?

This article is a partial translation of the Cash investigation article on the French Wikipedia. The image and some of the information it contains were drawn from there.

Why does Cash Investigation matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Cash Investigation?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Cash Investigation.