This Tuesday, February 13 , the Council of State
asked Arcom, the media regulator, to strengthen its control over
CNews
.
The highest administrative court, in a press release,
“ordered Arcom to re-examine within six months compliance by the CNews channel with its obligations in terms of pluralism and independence of information”.
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The Canal+ group, headed by Vincent Bolloré, owns the news channel but also the one dedicated to entertainment: C8.
One of its key figures,
Cyril Hanouna
, could not help but react to the controversy initiated by the Council of State.
And his first words set the tone.
For him, they are only
“lesson givers”
.
“Free speech ends when you don’t agree with them.
If you are not on track, inevitably they try to find lice in your head and put you aside
,” he gets annoyed from the outset.
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The presenter of “Touche pas à mon poste” takes as an example the latest warning for C8 received by Arcom.
“They try to find new things every time.
We were rejected for the Jérémy Assous sequence.
»
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“Lesson givers”
At the same time and to support its request, the Council of State also required the media regulator to take columnists and presenters into account for the distribution of political speaking time.
“What is disturbing is the success of C8 and CNews [...] They also see that it is another way of thinking
,” says the one who affirms that C8 is the first TNT channel after the terrestrial channels .
“
CNews is also becoming the leading news channel
so that means they are insulting the public.
Like most institutions, most lecturers, they don't like it when people don't think like them.
[...] It is a decision of dictatorship of thought.
When we see this, freedom of expression is in danger in France.
»
Cyril Hanouna's monologue continues:
"We feel that there is more and more popular fervor around C8 and CNews"
.
For the PAF troublemaker, things are clear.
“It is also the other channels which are lobbying, it is the France Télévisions group, TF1 perhaps the M6 group.
»
And to add by maintaining that their colleagues from the other channels wish to
“kill the two channels”
for a good reason:
“to recover talents like Jean-Marc Morandini, Pascal Praud, Laurence Ferrari, Sonia Mabrouk”
.