This Tuesday, December 13, Yann Barthès and the columnists of “Quotidien” received Penélope Cruz on the occasion of the upcoming release of the film “L’Immensità”, the Belgian phenomenon of humor Guillermo Guiz for his show “Next !” and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach on the occasion of the release of his book “Les Rives de la mémoire” (Bouquins editions). Asked about his relationship to feminism, the journalist notably addressed the #MeToo movement and the PPDA affair. Great moment of discomfort on the set.
A skid? This Tuesday evening, on TMC“Daily” received an exceptional guest: Penélope Cruz. Passing through France, the actress appears in the new feature film co-written and directed by Emanuele Crialese, “L’Immensita”, alongside Vincenzo Amato, Luana Giuliani, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti and Penelope Nieto Conti But before the arrival of the Spanish superstar, Yann Barthes and the show’s columnists were able to discuss with tonight’s red thread guest: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. In more than 50 years of profession, from Antenne 2 to Europe 1, passing by CNEWS where he still officiated very recently, the journalist, considered as one of the sizes of political journalism in France, has known and covered all the major French political events: from the election of François Mitterrand in 1981 to that of Emmanuel Macron, considered the outsider, in 2017. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach is releasing his new book this year, “Les Rives de la mémoire” (Editions Bouquins ), which covers 50 years of his life, from his childhood in Oran to all his encounters with the great personalities of the world. The one who marked the history of radio and television was therefore passing through this evening on the TMC set to look back on the major events that marked his life.
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“It’s starting to sink…”
On the occasion of the journalist’s visit, author and columnist Maïa Mazaurette wanted to come back to Jean-Pierre Elkabbach’s career through his relationship with women’s rights: “I don’t want to make you look like an old crouton but I still think I can say that when you started as a journalist, the Quatennens affair would not have existed because slapping his wife was not really a problem” Maïa Mazaurette told the journalist. Later in the interview, while the columnist also returned to the fall of PPDA (which Jean-Pierre Elkabbach himself installed on Antenne 2 at the head of the JT in 1976) and the advent of the #MeToo movement , Yann Barthès questions Jean-Pierre Elkabbach: “How could you have been a feminist in a world that was absolutely not?”. The journalist then replied: “It has been marked since my childhood. And then it also allows me to say that the past sheds light on the present. (…) But you talked about PPDA. I’m not going to push it any further in the tragic destiny that he made for himself but when I named him, (…) he was not the next PPDA. It was when he settled for twenty years at TF1 that , little by little, it became what we saw. Then Maïa Mazaurette interrupts her: “Do you think it’s power?” Jean-Pierre Elkabbach then continues: “It’s the power, it’s the atmosphere, first of all his temperament, the search for conquests quickly negotiated and settled and on the other hand also the behavior of certain young women, as for the singers, who come looking for them…but he probably overdid it and overdid it considerably.”
Moment suspended on stage. A bewildered gaze by Yann Barthès. Maïa Mazaurette launches: “Do you understand that we can be a little shocked by what you have just said?”
Same atmosphere on the side of Internet users, flabbergasted by the comment of the famous journalist.