Several American channels stood out in the presidential election last week by interrupting a speech by Donald Trump after the poll.

On Europe 1, Monday, journalists Patricia Loison and Julien Arnaud imagine a similar scenario in France and evoke the politicization of the American media.

INTERVIEW

The sequence will undoubtedly remain as one of the most striking images of the US presidential election.

On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump gave a speech in which he claimed to have won the ballot and denounced the "frauds" of his Democratic opponents.

Before the end of this speech, NBC decided to cut the broadcast of this speech to make a correction on the air.

An act that was repeated Thursday evening with a new speech interrupted by several channels, but which would be difficult to imagine in France, according to journalists Patricia Loison and Julien Arnaud, guests of Europe 1, Monday morning.

"Listen then explain"

"Even Fox News cut him off," recalls Patricia Loison, who provided the special edition of franceinfo overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.

"My feeling is that at last we could feel the trend moving. Suddenly, the channel allowed itself to do that. I think that with a 'normal' mandate, it might not have done it", she explains of Fox News, a channel traditionally favorable to the views of Donald Trump.

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For his part, Julien Arnaud "does not think" that a news channel could cut the speech of Emmanuel Macron or another French political leader ... Not even that of Donald Trump.

"He is still the President of the United States," insists the LCI journalist.

"He was elected and is still president until January 20."

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We tried to come back to the different sentences he had said, to say why it was wrong

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Julien Arnaud defends a different approach from American channels when the Head of State propagates untruths: "We broadcast this speech, because it was very important. We were waiting for his word and it is It was true that we had a hard time understanding what was said. He was talking about fraud, there was no proof… We listened to the end and then we tried to explain it. that it is our job and our role. We tried to come back to the different sentences he had pronounced, to say why it was wrong, why he was probably twisting a little bit. We preferred this to listen to him and then explain it, rather than 'cut the quid' to him. "

Take sides, "not in our culture"?

This choice is part of a historic politicization of news channels, with pro-democratic CNN and Fox News with much more conservative views.

Could BFMTV, LCI, CNews or Franceinfo officially take the side of a presidential candidate?

"No, at this point, that would not be possible. It is not in our culture and that's good," replied Julien Arnaud.

"There are nevertheless different tones in the news channels", nuance Patricia Loison, journalist of the public service, which evokes in hollow the channel CNews, often taken in cons-model conservative by the other media.

"You hear things on some antennas where there is a color. It's good to have a public service news channel, in those cases."