Paris (AFP)
CNews will no longer broadcast live "Faced with the news", his new show with Eric Zemmour, which will now be recorded with a slight delay, we learned Tuesday from the group Canal +, confirming information franceinfo.
The Canal + Ethics Committee, seized by the elected representatives of the staff, had recommended to CNews to apply a measure of this kind, to "ensure the conditions of a perfect editorial control".
Canal + has recruited polemicist Eric Zemmour for this daily program, broadcast since mid-October on the news channel CNews at 19H00 and whose polemicist is the leading columnist. And this, despite the intense controversy triggered by his very virulent speech on Islam and immigration at the end of September at the "Convention of the Right", and the confirmation in September of a court sentence for "provocation to religious hatred ".
Several statements by Eric Zemmour in this new program have aroused indignation, especially about Muslims, homosexuals or colonization in Algeria (he said, as a Frenchman, "on the side" of General Bugeaud who, when "he arrives in Algeria, begins to slaughter Muslims and even some Jews").
It has boosted the audience of CNews, which beats with him records (excluding special yellow vests) on this time slot.
Many organizations, personalities and associations, including La France Insoumise, the CGT or Caroline de Haas, have announced that they will not go on CNews as long as the channel will give the floor to the polemicist.
The CSA has, for its part, confirmed several times that it has been seized about "Facing the news", but has not yet decided on this case, while two parties, the PCF and EELV, have been called to take sanctions as soon as possible.
The CSA sent a warning last week to LCI for broadcasting live the speech of Eric Zemmour to the "convention of the right", a format that had not allowed the channel to bring a "contradiction adequate "about him.
The audiovisual regulator took the opportunity to remind all TV and radio that "freedom of expression, including controversial forms, as well as editorial freedom, can not justify the dissemination of comments likely to encourage hatred or discrimination ".
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