The hatchet is still not buried between TF1 et Cyril Hanouna. The spade this time came on Wednesday from Thierry Thuillier. According to the information director of the first channel in France, the host “does a lot of harm to the info” by blurring the boundaries between news and entertainment.
“Among the trouble factors in the relationship to information, there is the emergence of ‘talks’ (talk-shows, talk shows), and in particular of ‘talks’ which claim to be informative”, declared Thierry Thuillier during a conference-debate at the Assises du journalisme de Tours which takes place from Monday to Saturday. “Sorry to say it, but Hanouna does a lot of harm to the info”, he added during this debate on the crisis of public trust in the media.
The “Daily” program spared
“When you have politicians from this country who go on a set to be manhandled, (…) I think it serves information”, continued the boss of the info, calling for “the distinction between our professions, our practices” as journalists, and other things “that relate to entertainment”.
Thierry Thuillier further clarified that he “did not speak” of other talk shows such as “Quotidien”, “which makes quality “infotainment” (mixture of information and entertainment), or “C à vous” . The first program is broadcast in the early evening on TMC, a channel of the TF1 group, and C à vous is broadcast on the public channel France 5. Cyril Hanouna presents Touche pas à mon poste! (TPMP) every evening on C8, from the group Canal+.
TF1 sues TPMP
Le Figaro said Sunday that TF1 had decided to sue TPMP because of attacks on the air at the end of November once morest one of its programs, Le late with Alain Chabat. At the time, TF1 had accused the show of having disseminated “false information” on the cost of Late and had protested to theMy facethe media regulator, assuring that it reserved “the right to defend its interests by any other means”.
Cyril Hanouna has been at the center of many controversies in recent months. In February, C8 was fined a record 3.5 million euros by Arcom because of the insults hurled live at LFI deputy Louis Boyard in November.
