Journalist Anne Sinclair published "Compound Past" on Wednesday at Grasset.

She talks about her love of the profession but also the growing distance from it that she will take as her life progresses.

"For me, it's always been a job like any other," she says.

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Journalist Anne Sinclair on Wednesday released her memoirs, not those of a journalist but those of a "woman, mother, French, Jewish, journalist and rather in that order", as she defines herself in this work entitled

Past Compound

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Behind the anecdotes on the interviews of Gorbachev or Mitterrand hides this profession therefore, journalist, which "is not an identity qualification", defends Anne Sinclair Thursday on Europe 1, but "a job like any other".

A profession which "built and inspired her"

“It’s a career choice. It’s true that it built and inspired me. But I cannot still define myself like that today, because I don’t really work as a journalist anymore. I no longer have any responsibilities, I no longer have a box on the air, "recalls Anne Sinclair at the microphone of Europe 1. She concedes, however, that if she defines herself first and foremost as a woman, then a mother and a journalist last. , this order would have been different a few years ago.

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"I'm not a TV girl"

Anne Sinclair began her career in radio at Europe 1, before joining television on France 3 then TF1 for which she will start the program

7 sur 7

in 1984. "A lot of people who do this job - and it is especially true for television, because the radio is really different - on television they enter, stay there, die there, but cannot drop out. For me, it has always been a job like any other ", underlines the journalist. "And finally, this work that I did on TV, I could have done it anywhere else because that was the essence of the work that I liked. I'm not a TV girl. "

Radio therefore remains her first love: "I went to television and I am not going to denigrate it. It has given me joys, professional pleasures and fulfilled me. But radio, radio is life! We are in touch with the listener and with the event. TV is theater all the same, it's still theater. "

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Anne Sinclair finally believes that, despite the faults of the environment and a dismissal of TF1 which was done "in an extraordinarily brutal and violent manner", "the years of her life devoted to journalism were very beautiful" with an "envy" intact : "The desire to be a journalist (in this radio station which is no longer the same, obviously, neither geographically nor in substance), the desire from the start, to tell, to explain, to understand. it is not a priesthood: I have always felt a bit on the margins. "