"I shout daredevil and danger," said Roch-Olivier Maistre, president of Arcom, the media regulator, Sunday on France 5. "Editorialists are journalists, they have press cards.

Until further notice, I do not know of any administrative authority in a democracy that is beginning to control journalists," he said. "This rule", within the meaning of the 1986 law on freedom of communication, "is respected" by CNews, he added. In terms of humor as creation, "the regulator, of course, has an extremely high position of tolerance and not at all censor"