2023-06-27 02:55:00
The drafting of JDD is on strike renewable until Wednesday, following the announcement of the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune as editorial director.
By VD with AFP The editorial staff has almost unanimously renewed its strike until next Wednesday, to try to prevent the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, the former managing editor of Current Values. © Vincent Isore / MAXPPP / IP3 PRESS/MAXPPP Published on 06/27/2023 at 04:55
The appointment as head of the JDD of journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, known for his marked positions on the far right, is an “economic choice, and not at all ideological”, justified Monday the shareholder of the newspaper Arnaud Lagardère in Le Figaro. “I made this decision alone. Neither Vincent Bolloré, nor anyone from Vivendi, was involved in this decision, ”added the manager, whose industrial and media group has just been swallowed up by the French media giant and its very influential boss.
The editorial staff renewed its strike almost unanimously until next Wednesday, in an attempt to prevent the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, the former editorial director of Current Values, support for Eric Zemmour in the 2022 presidential election. and close to Marion Maréchal. She received broad support from the profession and the support of many left-wing politicians, as well as the Minister of Culture.
“The JDD must know how to adapt to changes in the world”
The movement paralyzed the website, before preventing the release of the paper edition on Sunday, an extremely rare event in the history of the influential weekly, scrutinized in the political world for its Sunday interviews. “I do not choose Geoffroy with the aim of changing the editorial line, but of course, the JDD must also know how to adapt to changes in the world as we have always done in the past”, argued Arnaud Largardère, CEO of the group that bears his name, which is due to meet with the editorial staff on Tuesday.
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“This fantasy of the far right that invites itself into our weekly is not real,” he believes. In the past, Geoffroy Lejeune “has moreover received and interviewed the entire political spectrum, from Alexis Corbière to Marine Le Pen, via President Emmanuel Macron” who had given a long interview on immigration to Valeurs Actuelles in 2019, anxious to go “on the opponent’s ground”.
“Let’s see Geoffroy Lejeune at work and give him some time. My decision is made”, decided Arnaud Lagardère, also ruling out the establishment of an editorial charter or the establishment of a right of veto for the editorial staff on the appointment of the editorial director. In recent years, the ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré has been accused of using the media he controls (including CNews and C8 television, Europe 1 radio and Paris Match magazine) to promote his opinions, which he defends.
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