"Everything is changing" in the media, believes Philippe Vandel

• This Friday, Philippe Vandel will be on the air in Europe 1, like every other day of the week, to host the 500th issue of 

  Culture Médias

  .

• His show deciphers the media facts of the day and welcomes the cultural guests of the moment.

  From his post, the journalist observes changes in the sector.

• “Everything is changing.

  We are going through what people experienced with the end of coal, ”he told 

  20 Minutes.

He will wait for the thousandth number to take out the party favors.

Philippe Vandel will celebrate

500th

this Friday on Europe 1 without any particular surprises on the program.

Every day, the journalist deciphers the news of the cultural and media world and receives the personalities who make the news of the moment.

To prepare for his questions, watch the shows he talks about, read the guest books and listen to the podcasts in which they intervene, the alarm that wakes him at 5 o'clock does not go off too early.

New media, changes in the press, controversies, Philippe Vandel confides in

.

What idea do you have in mind when you take the antenna at 9 o'clock?

What do you want listeners to take away?

I would especially like them to say to themselves that it is not biased.

I try to be informative all the time.

I have a moral, which I got from a great American journalist, Dan Rather, who said “my job is to make interesting what is important”.

Who sleeps with whom, everyone is interested but it has no interest.

On the other hand, how the media are made and how information is organized is off-putting, said like that, and it's up to us to make it flamboyant.

Media today covers a wide range of areas, from TV and press to YouTube and Twitch.

Are you trying to deal with these new media?

We do not have to force ourselves to deal with them first because it is the news but it is also real life.

I have two children, 18 and 20, who never watch any TV shows.

However, they are on their phones all the time.

So media is not just linear TV.

Every morning, I say “on the menu, all media and all forms of culture.

The media is the time available in front of the media.

Someone who plays a video game for four hours has no time to be in front of Netflix for four hours.

If he's watching Netflix, he's not watching another channel.

Media news is also a lot of controversy.

How do you position yourself in relation to this and how do you treat them?

Controversy is part of life, but life is not controversy.

When there is a difficult subject, I never study it, but I also do not make the morning on it.

Sometimes things that have been said back home have caused controversy.

Sometimes it gets over you, but controversy is neither my alpha nor my omega.

Last June, you were at the microphone to explain that Europe 1 was facing a strike.

How is Europe 1 today?

How is Europe 1?

Pretty good.

How are the audiences?

I don't know because they haven't fallen yet.

As for

, nothing has changed.

We have always been free since the show started.

There has never been any pressure, never a ban on making a subject, never an obligation to make one, never a comment on the content.

Since the capital change, never any.

No pressure, not a text, not even a hallway thing.

You mentioned the hearings.

They were on the rise last season ...

It is a media whose audiences have declined because of the Covid because a third of the listening is done by car.

If people are telecommuting, you automatically lose a third of your listening time.

All radio media are declining and

has grown over one year.

It was unexpected, I didn't even think it was possible.

The structure of the morning in Europe 1 has changed.

Nicolas Canteloup's humorous pastille is gone and mechanically, it is the humorous pastilles that attract the most people.

I told my team that our audiences might go down and that we could not compare the waves before to the one to come.

You get press bosses on your show.

Do you feel a mutation in the media, profound changes in the sector?

Totally!

Deep change is the end of the paperweight.

The bad news for the past week is that paper is getting more and more expensive.

There are several options: either we make less good paper, or we pay journalists less, or we make it pay more.

Everything is changing.

We are experiencing what people experienced with the end of coal.

There will always be journalists, but one day there will be no more paper except, I think, for books because we want to keep them.

The world is really changing, the paradigm is changing for everyone in the media.

Six months away from the presidential election, will you be covering the campaign and under what prism?

Sure ! 

is a media program so we are not going to cover the campaign but the way the media cover the campaign.

We did a lot of topics on the World Cup, without wondering if France would play 4-4-2 or 4-3-3.

We were, for example, interested in the way in which the media treated the French team.

For the presidential election, we will return in particular to the debates organized by the various media.

You are celebrating your 500th this Friday.

What is your fondest memory of the show?

Cross completely deserted Paris and be the only one doing the program.

The whole team was teleworking, everything was done remotely.

When you come back from the show, you are all alone like in an advertisement for a luxury perfume on a scooter, the police stop you and you show your press card.

It was completely lunar, I was in the film

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