The rag is burning between the radio Beur FM and two of its hosts who say they have been sanctioned since their meeting with the Israeli ambassador for a program, a version strongly contested by the management.
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At the origin of the dispute between the management of Beur FM and Malik Yettou and Rose Ameziane, a photo posted by the Israeli embassy on Twitter at the end of December showing the two hosts with the ambassador after an interview.
The hosts of "
L'actu autre
" had met him in order to prepare a program on the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel, Rose Ameziane told AFP.
The same day, the latter receive an email telling them that their program will not be renewed at the start of the school year in January 2021, "
not before a good debrief of our editorial line
", continues Rose Ameziane.
"
We were told that dealing with the normalization of the Morocco-Israel relationship was not part of the editorial line
», Supports the host, also a columnist on CNews.
"
Active minority
"
A second sanction fell in mid-January, after the return to the air of her show, affirms Rose Ameziane, when "
we learn on the internet
" his transfer to Saturday, box of lesser hearing, instead of Friday at the end of afternoon.
"
For a little while, we received pressure on our guests, on subjects (...) from the moment there were tweets from an active minority which put pressure on Beur FM
", assures the host.
Contacted by AFP, the management of the radio denied the facts, affirming that there had been "
no sanction
" and
denying
any anti-Semitism.
According to Djima Kettane, director general of Beur FM, the subject of the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel had been entrusted to a radio journalist, Adile Farquane, given the historical and political importance of the subject.
"
We have an editorial line to hold with our journalists and our editorial staff, not with animators,
" she explained.
A redesign of the program schedule
However, the hosts went to the Israeli embassy "
in the name of Beur FM
" without having received "
the authorization
", "
bypassing
" their journalist colleague, added Ms. Kettane, for whom "
the confidence has been betrayed
”.
But that did not motivate the move of the show to Saturday, planned as part of a "
total overhaul
of the radio
schedule
" after "
a huge
" drop in audience (-56,000 listeners from October to December according to Médiamétrie), she assures.
Very excited, the two parties are considering prosecution, they told AFP.
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