Another yellow card sent to CNews.
Seized by viewers about a sequence of "L'Heure des pros" broadcast on April 26, the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) recently looked into the matter.
At the heart of the discussions: the on-air treatment of the generals' platform, published a few days earlier in the weekly Valeurs Actuelles.
After deliberation at the end of July, the PAF regulator issued a warning to the Canal + group's continuous news channel.
For the CSA, CNews did not ensure "respect for an honest presentation of controversial issues, in particular by ensuring the expression of different points of view by journalists, presenters, hosts or on-air collaborators".
This is stated in an official email, which we obtained, sent following referrals from viewers.
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That day, the presenter Pascal Praud gave the floor live to the author of this forum: Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac, career officer and head of the Place Armés site, calling Emmanuel Macron to defend patriotism.
The guest of "L'Heure des pros" would have expressed himself without any real opponent according to the CSA, which adds that "given the controversial nature of the remarks made by the author of the debated forum, the Council considered that the The lack of diversity in the points of view expressed by the participants on the set contravened CNews' obligations.
A first warning in May
Present on the stage, the chronicler Jacques Séguéla declared in particular: “They have the right to say it.
What they say is true.
The former member of the National Rally Jean Messiha had added to be "for this call".
Pascal Praud, him, had made his editorial calling all the same everyone to read "this forum to form their opinion".
The regulator of the PAF also justifies the warning of CNews in these terms: "The circumstance that this subject was raised again during the emission of May 3, 2021, by the same speakers and in comparable terms, has arisen. confirm this observation.
“Contacted, neither the channel, nor Pascal Praud wished to comment.
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As a reminder, the forum in question was signed by "about twenty generals, a hundred high-ranking officers and more than a thousand other soldiers", according to Valeurs Actuelles. These soldiers denounced the "disintegration" which strikes the fatherland and "which, through a certain anti-racism, is displayed with a single aim: to create on our soil a malaise, even a hatred between the communities".
In May, the CSA had already warned CNews about “L'Heure des pros 2” devoted to the assault of a young girl in Reims, on September 9, 2020. The council had “considered that the technical procedures used did not make it possible to guarantee the anonymity of the minors whose images had been broadcast ”and“ considered that the broadcast on the air seven times of the amateur video had contributed to reinforce the repercussions of this humiliating episode for the victim, this which constitutes a breach (…) of the CNews agreement. "
