The Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, minister of supervision of public audiovisual, plays more and more from the balance of power with journalists.
The Minister of Culture has a public audiovisual reform which plans to bring together under the same holding company France Télévisions, Radio France and the National Audiovisual Institute. While Radio France unions call for strike on this project on June 26, Rachida Dati exercise verbal intimidation, even threats to journalists.
We saw this this week in the program C to you, on France 5, where the minister questioned the interviewer Patrick Cohen about a Mediapart article evoking a possible toxic management on his part between 2010 and 2017 when he was at France Inter, which could be moral harassment according to Mediapart. She even mentioned live the possibility of initiating legal proceedings against this journalist on the faith of these testimonies. Challenges disputed by Patrick Cohen, who recalls that there has been no legal proceedings, but which are useful to the Minister to return the projector when questions embarrass her.
Questions that have to do with public audiovisual. Because the complement survey program revealed on France 2 fifteen days ago, in partnership with The New Obsthat a second corruption case overwhelms the minister, already indicted for passive corruption and influence traffic after receiving 900,000 euros from Renault, Epoch Carlos Ghosn, when she was a member of the European Parliament.
This time, journalists reveal an accounting document from a law firm which attests to two transfers of GDF Suez of nearly 150,000 euros each which would be linked to their positions on gas subjects in Parliament. She suggests that all this would be the same file and her work as a lawyer. And deals with ” thug The journalists of France 2 by accusing them of having wanted to buy testimonies in his family in Morocco, which the channel denies.
The president of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte, defends her journalists. Unambiguously, since France Télévisions has supported C to you and judged the challenges of its journalists ” not acceptable ». The journalists’ society, for its part, denounced ” intimidation “And” pressures ». It must be said that Rachida Dati does not hide her recriminations towards the boss of France Télé and Radio France. She would have promised to have the ” scalp “By Delphine Ernotte, according to the Chained duckand accuses Sibyle Veil on Radio France of caricaturing its reform. From there that the next law aims to put them in step.
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