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How Emmanuel Macron wants to carry out a heist on prime time television

1/15/2024, 7:08:58 PM

Highlights: Emmanuel Macron has chosen to come and sit at the table of the French. Promised at the beginning of December, his famous "rendezvous with the nation" was scheduled for Tuesday at 20:15 p.m. Right in the middle of the traditional news. Proof that the president wants to remain the master of clocks, especially when they are in the media. "The president has no respect for any propriety," grumbles a good connoisseur of the media-political milieu.


ANALYSIS - Six channels, in addition to radio stations, will broadcast the president's speech on Tuesday evening.

Emmanuel Macron has chosen to come and sit at the table of the French. Promised at the beginning of December, his famous "rendezvous with the nation" was scheduled for Tuesday at 20:15 p.m. Right in the middle of the traditional news. Proof that the president wants to remain the master of clocks, especially when they are in the media. "The president has no respect for any propriety. There is, in the programming of this speech, a side to Mr. Sans-Gêne," grumbles a good connoisseur of the media-political milieu.

The speech, which will take the form of a press conference from the Élysée, will be broadcast by at least six channels: TF1, France 2, LCI, BFMTV, CNews and Franceinfo. More than that. With the exception of La Une, the layout of which has not yet been finalized, all the others will broadcast the President's speech in its entirety. M6 will not swell the ranks of broadcasters. But one of the group's radio stations, RTL, will broadcast the sequence. "People spend their time complaining...

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