“Conscience clause”, by Gilles Martin-Chauffier: greatness and miseries of journalists. Since Balzac and Maupassant, the modern figure of the journalist has given beautiful characters to literature.
The narrator of Clause de conscience is a veteran of Scoop magazine, he is living his last months in a group in the process of being bought out. He grumbles, jokes but lends himself to the exercise. And finally even begins to form a relationship with the young actress, between paternalism and summer flirting.