Gérard Darmon took Edwy Plenel to task in We are live, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, on France 2. "You know everything and nothing else", launched the actor to the journalist and co-founder of Mediapart, the calling him “Tartuffe” and “bogeyman of politics (…) and human relations”.

"You don't want to talk about Patrick Balkany [in this show] to talk about ecology, but you make it the front page of your newspaper [the Mediapart website], then you alert us to Zemmour's speech, the dangers of democracy, of the power of the rich over the media as if no one knew about it, ”the comedian reproached him.

After Gérard Darmon cut him off several times when he wanted to answer him, Edwy Plenel replied that these remarks were "a caricature, a prejudice".

"This prejudice, we [it] live, we, the journalists who do this work, those who bring the pen to the wound [according to the formula of Albert Londres], those who bring bad news, those who tell the truths that we don't want to hear.

We are used to that, to the fact that people label us, see us as barking dogs, as inquisitors, as persecutors.

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“This personal attack was actually aimed at journalism”

"Tell me a piece of information published by Mediapart which was not in the public interest, which, whether on the right or the left, was not useful for public debate, which was not true , which did not make it possible to reflect, to ask new questions", continued the journalist, citing the Cahuzac cases - which led to the creation of the Financial Prosecutor's Office and that of the High Authority for the Transparency of Life public – and holidays in Ibiza by Jean-Michel Blanquer.

"I do not find [that it is of paramount importance]", dropped Gérard Darmon about the leave of the Minister of Education.

This Sunday morning, Edwy Plenel returned to this highly commented sequence on social networks.

"This personal attack was actually aimed at journalism, at least that which investigates, researches and reveals in the service of the public interest", he tweeted, worried about "the advent of a world where information is suppressed under opinions.

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