2023-06-25 09:04:00
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« My Sunday ritual was to wake up with the JDD. Today it does not seem “, wrote Rima Abdul-Malak on social networks. The Minister of Culture thus expressed her deep concern for the “republican values”following the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, former managing editor of the far-right weekly Current Valuesat the head of Sunday newspaper.
« I understand the editorial staff’s concerns. In law, the JDD can become what it wants, as long as it respects the law. But for our republican values how not to be alarmed? “, she continued. A formulation regretted by the boss of Mediapart, Edwy Plenel: “ A capitalist who owns a medium should not be able to do “whatever he wants” with it. By not respecting the independence of editorial staff, it is attacking a fundamental right, freedom of information. In addition, the JDD receives public aid from the State “, he retorted.
The newspaper, controlled by Vincent Bolloré, has been shut down since Thursday and the vote for a strike which prevented its publication on Sunday. It was renewed Saturday evening until Wednesday almost unanimously. In question, the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, fired from the far-right weekly Current values, as editor.
Media and publishing: the democratic earthquake of Vincent Bolloré
Red line
Official since Friday evening, this arrival is a “ Red line For the editorial staff, estimates the society of journalists (SDJ) of the JDD, which asks the management to give up this appointment. ” The editorial staff of the JDD refuses to be directed by a man whose ideas are in total contradiction with the values of the newspaper “, she added.
The editorial staff of the JDD fears that a method already denounced elsewhere in the media controlled by Vincent Bolloré will be repeated: waltz of the leaders and interventions on the editorial line, fear that it will switch to the far right, at the cost of a possible haemorrhage of journalists.
On Sunday, around thirty journalists’ societies (SDJ) from the major media, including France Télévisions, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Le Parisien, La Tribune, Liberation, Radio France and even Paris Match, gave their support to the striking journalists of the JDD, in a column published on Mediapart.
« The appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, former editor of the far-right weekly Current valueswhose hateful content has been condemned by the courts, is incompatible with the values that the newspaper has carried for seventy-five years “, they point out.
Under the direction of Lejeune, the weekly was sentenced to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros for public insult of a racist nature once morest LFI deputy Danièle Obono. In question, an article and a drawing published in August 2020 under the title ” Obono the African “, where the elected official of Gabonese origin was depicted as a slave.
Majority and left in support of JDD journalists
The leader of the CGT Sophie Binet estimated that ” the extension of Bolloré’s media empire (was) a serious danger to democracy ».
A concern widely shared on the left, where several political leaders have denounced the supposed ambition of the billionaire, who now controls several major media (such as Canal +, Paris Match, Europe 1 and CNews) to prepare the ground for a takeover of the extreme right in the run-up to the 2027 presidential election.
Green MP Sandrine Rousseau gave her support to the employees and the leader of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure said to himself ” very worried regarding pluralism ». « Today we have a problem of concentration in the hands (…) of Vincent Bolloré, it’s a whole galaxy that puts itself at the service of a man and at the service of an ambition, an ideology “, he continued on Radio J. “ The ambition is to conquer power, I remind you that Vincent Bolloré was behind Eric Zemmour’s candidacy for the last presidential election ».
Towards new legislation to guarantee freedom of the press?
He called for new legislation to guarantee press freedom and editorial independence, with Socialists working in parliament on a bill on the subject.
A prospect to which the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, has not closed the door. ” Given the technological developments, also the landscape of the press, we should review all this “, she said regarding the concentration in the media, questioned in A Sunday in politics, on France 3.
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