Europe 1, with AFP 10:37 am, September 10, 2021
The Canal + group channel CNews announces that it will keep polemicist Eric Zemmour on the air.
An announcement that comes after the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) asked the media to count the speaking time of Eric Zemmour, not officially a presidential candidate, as is done for political figures.
The polemicist will remain in the show
Face à l'Info
"all next week".
This is what CNews said about the multi-convict Eric Zemmour.
A decision taken after the announcement of the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) to count the speaking time of whoever could be a candidate for the presidential election, but is not officially today.
He is henceforth considered as an "actor of the national political debate" by the CSA, and no longer as a simple columnist.
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Eric Zemmour accuses the government of pressure on the CSA
The director of the antennas of Canal + Gérald-Brice Viret told the newspaper
L'Opinion
"to have fallen from the clouds" when he learned of the decision of the CSA.
He will ask the Council what motivated his decision.
Eric Zemmour, meanwhile, accused the government on Thursday of exerting pressure on the Superior Audiovisual Council.
"The policies are so cowardly that they hide behind the so-called independent CSA, which is absolutely not independent and which is subject to all the pressures, from people of En Marche, the government and Emmanuel Macron ", launched the columnist on CNews.