“Why do we never ask a BFMTV journalist if Patrick Drahi intervenes on the editorial line?”
FIGARO LIVE – Invited on the “Buzz TV” set to promote her fifth book Reclaiming the Sacred (Observatory editions), the journalist and presenter responded to the attacks on her CNews channel.
Reclaiming the Sacredsuch is the title of the fifth and new work of Sonia Mabrouk, published by the Observatory editions. The journalist recounts her conversion to the sacred. “The sacred is the need to reconnect with what precedes and succeeds us“, she explains this Friday on the set of” Buzz TV “. “The sacred gives access to greater than oneself. It doesn’t have to be supernatural and religious“, she adds.
The journalist who interviews politicians every morning on Europe 1 has noted a “desacralizationin our society which goes back, according to her, to May 68 and this slogan “It is forbidden to forbid” Who “did a lot of damage“. “The sacred is a bit outdated and mocked today. When I speak about it in the media, some sketch a movement of recoil as if it were something unseemly“, notes Sonia Mabrouk.
During this interview, Sonia Mabrouk also returned to the criticisms leveled against her CNews channel where she officiates every noon and every Sunday in “Le Grand rendez-vous”. She notices that each time CNews figures are invited to a show, they are asked about potential management interventions on the editorial line. “Why don’t we ask the same question to a BFMTV journalist? Do we ask him if Mr. Patrick Drahi intervenes on his editorial line?“, she asks.
She goes on to respond to those who call CNews “chain of opinionslike Marc-Olivier Fogiel, boss of BFMTV. “What is an opinion? CNews is a news channel. During the two hours of my slot, I have two important diaries which are made by the editorial staff, I have four news items. I provide information and so do my guests. We respond perfectly to the specifications of an information channel“, she defends, specifying to assume her positions and her interventions. “It’s a cross-partisan commitment“, she underlines to conclude on the subject.
