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Dominique Reynié: "When the Minister of Culture leads an ideological and partisan fight"

2023-02-16T19:17:53.974Z


TRIBUNE – Invited on Thursday, February 9, on France Inter, the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, threatened to deprive CNews and C8 of the right to broadcast. In defiance of freedom of opinion and pluralism, it thus claims the partisan and militant dimension of its action...


Dominique Reynié is a university professor and managing director of the Foundation for Political Innovation, a liberal think-tank.

On February 9, 2023, the Minister of Culture, Ms. Rima Abdul Malak, was the guest of France Inter.

During the interview, the Minister did not fail to confirm what was expected of her with regard to the media:

"Me, my challenge is to preserve the independence of the audiovisual sector as much as possible, public and private, to preserve the freedom of journalists, the freedom of the press.”

But this classic discourse, however reassuring, was shattered when the Minister was invited to react to the remarks made by Cyril Hanouna on C8, on January 16, where, in a diatribe against France Télévisions and Radio France, he concluded with a thundering

“Privatize this for me!

We could pay hospitals with that!”

The words had been recalled on the air by Nicolas Demorand.

Rima Abdul Malak deemed these remarks

“inadmissible”

without being able to say why the idea of ​​a…

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Source: lefigaro

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