INTERVIEW
News has turned his report upside down, while reinforcing his point. For several weeks, the reporter Martin Weill and his teams have been crisscrossing the American roads to try to understand the famous "American dream", when the coronavirus crisis came to hit the United States, and plunged the country, already in prey spectacular inequalities, in a severe economic crisis. "The coronavirus crisis shows the limits of the American dream", analyzes Martin Weill at the microphone of Europe 1. His report, Covid-19, the end of the American dream?, Will be broadcast on Tuesday at 9:15 pm on TMC.
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"We were walking around the United States before the crisis to question the strengths and weaknesses of the American dream. Since then, the crisis has hit the world and we realized that the testimonies we had gathered were gaining even more force. . We therefore contacted people to find out if they had changed their vision, "said Martin Weill at the microphone of Philippe Vandel.
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"The country is ravaged by inequalities reinforced by the crisis"
"We are in the world's leading economy, but the country is ravaged by inequalities, which are reinforced by this crisis," continues the journalist. Indeed, across the Atlantic, more than 30 million people have registered as unemployed since mid-March, and the media have broadcast numerous images of huge crowds waiting in front of food distribution establishments.
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The strength of the report, according to its author, resides in particular in the opposite that he proposes in his description of America. "These are images that we are not used to seeing. When we think of the United States, we are often amazed by the power of this economy, of this society, and we often do not see enough of its flaws. However, this crisis shows all the flaws in this system, "he explains. The program shows by the striking example of Terry, a dental assistant initially interviewed by Martin Weill to talk about inequalities in access to care in America. Since the start of the health crisis, she herself has lost her health insurance.