2023-06-23 21:27:00
Geoffroy Lejeune succeeds Jérôme Béglé, himself appointed managing director of the editorial staff of Paris Match, another title of the Lagardère group, whose absorption by Vivendi, the group of ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, has just been authorized by Brussels .
“Geoffroy is a raw talent in French journalism that we could not pass up,” justified Arnaud Lagardère, CEO of the eponymous group, quoted in a press release sent to the press before JDD journalists were informed of this decision.
According to the group, the former editor of Current values, support of Eric Zemmour in the presidential election of 2022 and close to Marion Maréchal, “will have the mission to embody journalistic excellence, namely: the facts , investigation, duty to inform”.
“It is a huge honor in a career as a journalist to be able to work in the service of such a prestigious title”, reacted in the same press release Geoffroy Lejeune, just landed from Valeurs Actuelles against a background of disagreements with his shareholder on his line. too far to the right.
But this journalist with a dazzling career is not arriving on conquered ground.
Two hours earlier, failing to obtain a confirmation or a denial from its leaders, the editorial staff had voted 96% to renew the strike decided the day before to denounce the appointment – then hypothetical – of Geoffroy Lejeune, revealed by Le World, preventing the publication of the Sunday newspaper.
“From the moment they announced that this Sunday’s newspaper would not appear, they were able to rush to confirm the appointment”, analyzes the aforementioned journalist.
“Bolore System”
“It’s the icing on the cake which is very bitter”, comments his colleague. “It’s even more brutal”, she continues, evoking “a form of incredulity in the face of such contempt (…) We are thinking about the different modes of action”, before a probable renewal of the strike on Saturday and a Arnaud Lagardère’s visit scheduled for the newspaper on Tuesday morning, according to an internal source.
The revelations of Le Monde had aroused great emotion since Thursday in both media and political circles.
Geoffroy Lejeune “expresses ideas contrary to the values that the JDD has carried for seventy-five years”, warned the Society of Journalists (SDJ) of the JDD on Thursday, recalling the conviction of Valeurs Actuelles for racist insult to the deputy LFI Daniele Obono.
“We are talking about a man whose + newspaper + has published racist caricatures”, also protested LFI deputy Thomas Portes on Twitter on Friday.
“The Bolloré system is being put in place: it is a brutal method to establish the grip of the shareholder, a refusal of the elementary rules of journalism and the contempt for the history of a newspaper”, reacted on the same network the Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders, Christophe Deloire.
“Bolloré is a specialist in ax cutting in the media which he buys (…) let’s remember ITélé”, which became CNews after being emptied of its editorial staff, he had warned earlier, promising to mobilize “as much as possible to avoid journalistic carnage”.
“Beyond the provocation and the demonstration that the far right is now quietly settling in the media, (it’s) a betrayal for all of the editorial staff and readers,” said Alain Genestar earlier. , editorial director of the JDD from 1987 to 1999.
In recent years, Mr. Bolloré has been accused of using the media he controls (including CNews and C8 television or Europe 1 radio) to promote his opinions, which he denies.
The announcement of a merger between the editorial staff of Europe 1 and CNews in the spring of 2021 had triggered a historic strike movement within the radio, ending in a haemorrhage of departures.
Since October 2021, several changes have affected the management of Paris Match and the JDD.
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