It could almost sound like censorship.
Last Thursday on France Info, the continuous information channel of the public service, the elected Communist Ian Brossat, deputy to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, accused the media of fueling the dynamic poll of Eric Zemmour in him offering an exhibition that he considers disproportionate.
The author of the
French Suicide
and now of
France has not said its last word
would have been "
promoted for years
" by the media.
"
Not on your channel,
" however corrected the spokesperson for the Communist Party.
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It was then that in response, Gilles Bornstein's ax fell: Eric Zemmour "
has no right to come here
".
The political editorialist of France Info, who did not specify which "
right
" it was, immediately drew the wrath of many Internet users, favorable or not to a candidacy of the right-wing columnist.
The first interested party was quick to react on Twitter.
"
Who are you, Gilles Bornstein, to prevent me from speaking on the public service?"
The French deserve that you pay them back their taxes!
», Reacted Eric Zemmour, alluding to the public funding of France Info.
Friday afternoon, the columnist for France Info in turn split a tweet to admit that he had "
poorly expressed
". “
The direction of the info of france tele decided not to invite him until he is not a candidate. Of course he will be invited on like the other candidates, if he decides to be,
”he said.
In the process, the management of the chain itself confirmed this strategy. “
In any case Eric Zemmour and the current of thought that he represents are prohibited from broadcasting at @FranceTele. Eric Zemmour will obviously be invited to our political meetings if he is a candidate for the presidential election
, ”wrote on Twitter Laurent Guimier, the director of information for France Televisions. A somewhat ambiguous remark since, for the moment, not being a candidate, Eric Zemmour is well deprived of antenna.
Given in second position behind Emmanuel Macron in a poll published last week after a very rapid breakthrough in the opinion polls devoted to the presidential election which is held in six months, the not-yet-candidate Éric Zemmour therefore knows what to stick to.
If he wants to go on France Info, he will have to officially stand as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic, a subject on which he has kept the mystery up for several weeks, although more and more softly.
"
These polls encourage me rather, I grant you
," he admitted on October 6 on Europe 1.