"Fourteen years is enough! I had wanted to quit for two or three years already. Two years ago, the management asked me to stay one more season, and last year, I was asked to continue until the presidential election", explains Thomas Legrand, one of the figures of the first morning of France.
"I want to stop exercising because I feel like I'm starting to go around in circles, almost having obsessions, being predictable," he continues.
"In addition, with social networks and the + all-info +, political commentary has become an invasive warm water tap", he believes.
Instead, Thomas Legrand will present every Saturday at the end of the day a one-hour program devoted not to commentary, but to political ideas.
It will be called "In Search of Politics".
In a "more gassy" period, where people "are much less affiliated than before with this or that current", it is necessary "to bring a little clarity by re-examining the political ideas which feed the current debates", explains the journalist.
With the arrival at its head of Adèle Van Reeth at the start of the school year, replacing Laurence Bloch, France Inter will introduce changes in its morning.
In addition to the departure of Thomas Legrand, Charline Vanhoenacker's emblematic political humor post, which was scheduled every day at 7:57 a.m., will become weekly, according to Le Figaro.
"It was the management of France Inter who notified me of the end of my morning column, which started 8 years ago (...). I did not oppose it, so I am taking part in it" , reacted the Belgian humorist on June 10 on Twitter, after the end of his daily column was revealed by this same newspaper.
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