“I want a freer, less codified show.”
In May 2012,
Laurence Ferrari
left the presentation of the TF1 newspaper.
Audiences were falling, the host was no longer enjoying it.
After four very exposed years, she returned to the air on the new channel D8, where she presented “Le Grand 8”.
A talk show for which she surrounds herself in particular with Hapsatou Sy.
The two women will work together for four years, until the end of the “Grand 8” and before the start of Laurence Ferrari's rise in the Canal + group.
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Hapsatou Sy
says today she no longer recognizes the one she considered a
“big sister”
.
“
She was contaminated by the CNews virus.
I prefer to keep the memory of a woman who positioned herself in favor of anti-FN, anti-racism, who would never have adhered to this editorial line
,” she assures in an article in
Télérama
entitled
Laurence Ferrari , passion of CNews: its big turn in the country of Bolloré.
Hapsatou Sy specifies:
“She didn't fit at all with the CNews line at the time, but it's difficult to judge: she has bills to pay like everyone else, and that's perhaps what made her keep it there.”
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Laurence Ferrari defends himself
On the Canal + group channel, Laurence Ferrari, also editor-in-chief of the political department of
Paris Match
, presents the daily show “Punchline”.
Where she expresses herself with a certain freedom of tone.
Last January, during a press conference by Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée, she expressed her doubts about government policy during a speech which was widely commented on.
In one of her recent editorials, she was also indignant at the decision of the Council of State to demand from Arcom increased control of television sets, primarily that of CNews.
She regretted a France
"which tries by all means to restrict freedom of expression"
, before adding, to the attention of viewers:
"I can't wait for such attention to also be paid to public channels which live thanks to to your money
.
»
Laurence Ferrari was also interviewed by
Télérama.
She defends herself against any compromise.
“I am aligned with myself, what I think, and my years of experience.
I run my boat as I see fit (...) There are the priorities of journalists, and those of the French, with whom it seems to me that I have come closer,”
assures the one who can count on the support of Pascal Praud.
The star presenter of CNews believes that his colleague “
had to force her nature a little to give an opinion that she already had.”