Back-to-school media conferences are traditionally friendly moments with relaxed leaders after the summer recess.
But, at the end of August 2021, in most groups the rhetoric was serious.
"We will not give up the field," said
Vincent Giret, director of information and sports for the Radio France group.
Was he talking about Afghanistan?
No, he was talking about the streets of French towns crisscrossed all summer long by anti-pass demonstrations enamelled with numerous attacks on journalists.
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Stations of the France Bleu network were attacked, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a Radio France truck.
This is the first time that a media official has suggested in hollow that the question of abandoning the field has arisen.
"But it is impossible to give up because that would amount to denying the raison d'être of journalism",
underlines Vincent Giret
.
“Collaborating media,“ mediacrates ”,“ journalists ”…”
, the insults were launched against the journalists of the channels
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