The author of this article thinks that the basic difficulties of wider introduction of media education in the Russian and French universities & schools first of all are connected with patent defect purposefully prepared of media educators; with the certain inertness of many educational establishments; with traditional approaches of the education ministry structures concentrating the attention on support of training computers' courses and information technologies and much smaller attention to actual media education problems. The target to give media education movement a new pulse is connects with the consolidation of all educational and media educational organizations and media communities. As a whole the comparative analysis modern media education in France and Russia in XXI (twenty first) centuries has shown that, despite of the certain distinctions, it has common extremely actual in epoch refined media manipulations vector--aspiration to development of critical and democratic thinking, creative abilities on media material--at all levels of training.