The presenter hangs up the gloves.

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  • Jean-Pierre Pernaut will leave the 13 hour newscast on TF1.

    He had been presenting it since 1988.

  • We asked our Internet users what the journalist meant to them.

There are immutable things: The sky is blue, line 13 of the Paris metro is overloaded, Drucker presents

Vivement dimanche

 and Jean-Pierre Pernaut takes care of the 13 hours of TF1.

Except that.

Except that, earthquake in the PAF, the latter announced that he would no longer ensure the presentation of the mid-day television news on the first channel by the end of the year.

Obviously, after 32 years of presentation, the journalist will have marked many French people.

Whether for good or for bad, you don't spend so much time in the spotlight without amassing a few detractors.

To better understand what this iconic newscast represents, we asked our Internet users to share their feelings with us on this significant change.

"He is part of the family"

In the multitude of messages we have received, our Internet users praise the presenter's ability to establish a feeling of closeness with his viewers: “For me he is irreplaceable, no one will look like Jean-Pierre because he is part of the family and he will miss me.

I loved his news, his good nature, his way of being close to people… ”, Patricia confides.

This familiarity was built over the long term, by settling in homes and, thus, by bringing together several generations.

Emilie remembers: “My father made us watch the 1pm newscast on TF1 and not from another channel because there was JPP.

Our discussions were stimulated by the reports, but also by his personality.

"JPP", as many of you call it, therefore had its place at Audrey's table, as with many others.

“Pernaut has punctuated lunches throughout my childhood.

Symbol of the 1 pm newspaper, it was invited to each of our meals.

In the space of 40 minutes, it became the center of everyone's interest, ”explains the 23-year-old.

Sweet France

Proximity to viewers already, but with the land, territories, regions… In short, with France which is not limited to Paris, above all.

For Nicole, that makes the difference: “It's a breath of sweetness among all the anxiety-provoking information, he knows how to say the things we think about and talk about French regions and forgotten professions with enthusiasm and benevolence.

"Jean-Claude him, was not at the rendezvous regularly, but he sums up the thinking of many viewers:" He represented Franchouillarde France, loved by retired viewers.

His television news were an ode to "deep France", that of the terroirs, of good food and the sweetness of life.

" Just that.

A little "reaction"?

Despite everything, the flagship presenter does not only have fans, far from it.

Moreover, the end of Jean-Claude's testimony underlines it: “His reactionary ideas at the end of his career did not only make him aficionados.

Indeed, we have found this reproach on several occasions.

And if we are again talking about "deep France", this time it is far from being laudatory.

"Subjects flush with the daisies supposed to deliver most of what France is but which ultimately locks it in what it has worst: narrow state of mind, closed in on oneself, no hindsight.

The positions taken by Sieur Pernaut were regularly tinged with a so-called popular common sense closer to the RN ideology than to a journalist open to others and the world, ”denounces Patrice.

An opinion shared, among others, Fouzia: “It represents the breach of the duty of reserve, the lack of investigation, of substantive subjects in its editions.

He wanted to be the man "of the land" but without ever doing real journalism, too bad.

Glad he's handing it over.

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Ultimately, and even if Jean-Pierre Pernaut was elected favorite TV personality of the French last June, the character is far from unanimous.

Perhaps, also, because of his longevity which has slowly turned habit into weariness, as Marie explains: “He has done beautiful things, but it's time to move on.

No one is irreplaceable.

Good luck to him and welcome to the one who will replace him.

"Hoping that she or he will have the same success.

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