The towel is burning between the editorial staff of France Télévisions and its director of information.
According to
La Lettre A
, a motion of no confidence against Laurent Guimier will be put to the vote on June 30.
The decision was recorded at a general meeting held this Thursday, June 23.
An electronic vote will be open to journalists on permanent contracts from the national editorial staff of France Télévisions.
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Reason for dissatisfaction: “
The choice of Mohamed Bouhafsi, columnist in the program
“C à vous”
on France 5 and former sports journalist on RMC, to cover Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Ukraine.
No journalist from the national editorial staff of France Télévisions had been dispatched alongside the teams of
"C à vous"
, TF1 and BFM-TV
", indicates La Lettre A. Broadcast on June 17, it is an understatement to say that the he interview given by the president to Mohamed Bouhafsi was not digested.
Monday, the National Union of Journalists (SNJ) of France Televisions was also moved in a leaflet published on social networks.
The document denounced "
an affront, an insult coupled with disorganization at the highest level
“, before crushing a direction”
more than failing
“.
Growl at France Televisions
If this episode has raised a little more discontent, in reality, the evil is deep.
And the announcement of non-renewal of several fixed-term contracts within the editorial staff of France 2, despite the promise made at the start of the week to maintain them this summer, was one crisis too many.
“
There is a general fed up with the direction of information which accumulates errors at all levels.
Laurent Guimier does not defend the writing at all.
He has no attachment to this writing, moreover, he never sets foot there
, ”confides a journalist to
Figaro
.
To put it bluntly, what poses a problem with Laurent Guimier is his complete work.
This is his entire mandate
”.
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Laurent Guimier is not the first director of information for France Télévisions to find himself in such a situation.
In 2017, Michel Field, in the same position, had to leave his post after a motion of no confidence which denounced at the time "
the contempt, the casualness and sometimes the rudeness displayed by the director of information
".