Society celebrates its fifth anniversary and goes out on newsstands on Thursday, highlighting a category of journalists that is often criticized: editorialists. Listening only to their courage, the journalists of Society decided to follow three of them for a week: Julie Graziani, Yves Thréard du Figaro and Jean-Michel Aphatie from LCI. These three have "response to everything" written in the fortnight, and they obviously want to make it known.
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A French tradition
"We wanted slightly different profiles," said Joachim Barbier, one of the article's two co-authors. "Editorial writer, it is a trade and a tradition which exists for a very long time in France. In the years 1980-1990, we saw arriving these people who were mainly editorialists in daily newspapers or magazines, like Alain Duhamel or Christophe Barbier But there are also people who have emerged with news channels. "
"There is Jean-Michel Apathie who is a bit of a 'solo' editorial writer that we see on different channels. Yves Thréard, attached to Le Figaro and Julie Graziani, born in the media in the wake of the 'Manif' for all '. C "is a new generation of people who are there to give an opinion, and a rather clear-cut opinion," said the journalist. Initially, the two authors of Society had for a time had the idea of following Alain Duhamel and Christophe Barbier, but BFM refused.
A small world in a vacuum
If the 2000s consecrated the chroniclers, for ten years the editorialists have returned to the front of the stage. "We are faced with more and more information. It starts with a good feeling, to have people who sort through all of this, to have a little analysis", underlines Joachim Barbier. "But we also often fall into strong opinions, not necessarily supported, underpinned by emotional reactions to the news. All the news channels also do, morning and evening, filmed radio. is not expensive: you put four people around a table with politically different profiles and with the prospect of making the news of the day, with controversy, reaction, unhappy phrase. The media create their own news by occupying space with the controversy of the day. "
Reading this article, it's also a small world that lives in a vacuum. "Everyone knows each other, it's always the same people who go from a radio studio to a television set. Collusion is also a bit with politicians because, as we say, good customers are often the same. It is a politico-media environment that knows and intersects. It is a very small Parisian environment, "analyzes the journalist.