The controversy between the news channel and the Non-Governmental Organization continues to be in full swing.
After the stormy sequence that took place on the set of “L’Heure des pros” this Wednesday between Pascal Praud and Christophe Deloire, the secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, it is up to the show “Touche pas à mon poste” to react .
Cyril Hanouna and his columnists received live on C8 Robert Ménard, the co-founder of the NGO.
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As a reminder, 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”.
The decision follows an appeal from the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which considers that CNews
“is no longer a news channel, but has become an opinion media”.
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Good or bad journalists”
“
I am saddened,”
began Robert Ménard facing Cyril Hanouna.
“We created Reporters Without Borders almost forty years ago with three friends.
The objective was not to choose good and bad journalists.
It wasn't about mobilizing for one or the other, it was just mobilizing when a guy is in prison or taken hostage
,” laments the co-founder of the NGO before emphasizing having spent 23 years of his life to act for the association.
“I never asked the people I came out of prison what they thought.
[...] I didn't tell myself that they are right-wing, left-wing or that they think this or that.
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And to continue:
“in the 16 years since I left Reporters Without Borders, I have never said anything.
I didn't want to come back to something that is a beautiful story, but when I heard that, I said to myself that they had fallen on their heads.
It’s exactly the opposite
. ”
He then recalled that the association, which is now the largest in the world, was initially created to defend pluralism and freedom of expression.
“Today, she is fighting against pluralism.
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