Guest Friday of "Culture media" on Europe 1, the psychoanalyst and columnist Gérard Miller has engaged in a violent charge against CNews, whose audiences on Monday exceeded those of BFMTV, and which he accuses of not respecting political pluralism by favoring guests from the ranks of the right and the far right.

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While it was said to be dying, the CNews channel saw Monday, for the first time, its audiences exceed those of its main competitor, BFMTV. The 24-hour news channel, owned by the Canal + group, has a 2.7% audience share against 2.5% for that of Altice. In detail, this progression is notably driven by the two locomotives of the chain, Pascal Praud and Éric Zemmour, with their respective emissions. "There is undoubtedly a trend towards the rightization of our country", reacted Friday, at the microphone of

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on Europe 1, the psychoanalyst Gérard Miller, himself a columnist on LCI, the third news channel in France with 1, 2% audience share. According to him, "CNews is won over by its lies and its excesses."

He thus believes that the channel gives "an excessive echo" to the personalities of the right.

"Only people from the right or far-right are invited for whole mornings. And sometimes, miraculously, there is someone on the left. Pluralism is absolutely not respected on CNews", notes Gérard Miller.

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"People who find Marine Le Pen too soft"

"It is a channel which has no other ambition than to clearly support Marine Le Pen and Marion Maréchal", even advances the columnist. "I have friends at CNews who tell me about editorial meetings," says Gérard Miller. "These are the reactions of people who find that Marine Le Pen is too soft and who want Marion Maréchal," he says.

Taken over by Vincent Bolloré in 2016, when he took over Canal +, the former I-Télé is regularly singled out for the rightization of its editorial line. Last March, the CSA condemned CNews to a fine of 200,000 euros because of comments made by Eric Zemmour on unaccompanied minor migrants, qualified as "thieves" and "murderers". The audiovisual gendarme considered that it was an "incitement to hatred" and "to violence".