End of the gap between the recording of "Face à l'Info" and its broadcast on CNews?
From this Wednesday (and not this Tuesday, as initially planned), Christine Kelly should go live again at 7 p.m. sharp to announce the major themes mentioned by her four columnists.
According to our information, this decision was recorded the day after the withdrawal from the antenna of Eric Zemmour, presumed candidate of various right, while the CSA asked the chains to count his speeches like any "political actor" .
This return to live is a big change for “Face à l'Info”.
Since October 29, 2019, two weeks after the arrival of Eric Zemmour on CNews, the management of the channel had chosen the deferred, as suggested by the ethics committee of the Canal + group.
To "prevent possible ethical breaches" and ensure "the conditions for perfect editorial control", this committee, called upon by the unions, proposed to broadcast the program "deferred, even slightly deferred".
A recommendation qualified as "intelligent" by the management who had therefore chosen to comply with it.
Objective: to leave thirty minutes to be able to cut a passage which would fall under the blow of the law.
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This deferral came after several controversial remarks by Eric Zemmour. In a few days on CNews, the author of "French Suicide" had struck many viewers, who seized the CSA, for his remarks on Islam, Marshal Pétain, homosexuality, or General Bugeaud (governor of the 'Algeria in the 19th century).
But the delay did not prevent further slippages. Last October, Zemmour said of unaccompanied foreign minors: “They are thieves, they are murderers, they are rapists, that's all they are. Despite the reminders of Christine Kelly, the CSA had decided to impose a fine of 200,000 euros on CNews, five months later. For the regulator of the PAF, these remarks were "likely to incite hatred towards this population, for reasons of nationality" and conveyed "many particularly infamous stereotypes".