2023-07-08 19:57:16
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 11:47, Updated yesterday at 21:57
A strike fund was opened to support the movement and a petition was launched. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
The renewal of the movement had unsurprisingly been widely adopted on Saturday. The editorial staff asks the president to “seize as quickly as possible” questions of independence of the press.
The editorial staff of the JDD, on strike for 16 days against the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune (ex-Valeurs Actuelles), on Saturday called on Emmanuel Macron to “enter as soon as possiblequestions of the independence of the press, in a letter published by Ouest-France. “Many personalities and organizations have publicly shown their support“, recalls the editorial staff in this open letter.
«But with the exception of a few rare expressions from ministers, discretion has prevailed on the side of the executive, which thus seems to endorse this new blow to the independence of the media.“, she believes, fearing”die in silence».
Even if Arnaud Lagardère, boss of the group that owns the JDDdefended himself in Le Figaro , many observers see in the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, a journalist marked on the far right, the hand of the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, with deemed ultra-conservative opinions. It comes indeed just after the green light given under conditions by Brussels to Vivendi, the group of Vincent Bolloré, to swallow Lagardère (Paris Match, Europe 1, Hachette…).
A third Sunday without a newspaper
Before a third Sunday in a row without the publication of the JDD, the renewal of the movement had unsurprisingly been adopted very widely on Saturday (90 for, 3 against, 8 who do not decide), until Tuesday 9:30 a.m. and a new meeting of employees , according to the Society of Journalists (SDJ) of the title.
«If appointments in a press company obviously come under private law, information is not a commodity like any other“, advances in his letter the editorial staff of the JDD, insisting on the”emergency“to guarantee”the independence of the editorial staff and the impartiality of the information“. She therefore asks the President toseize this question as soon as possible. First by taking a public position on this decisive issue, then by changing the legal framework».
Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak received a delegation of JDD journalists last week, a few days after expressing her deep concern for the “republican values” on Twitter. “It is not up to the State today to interfere in the choice of a drafting of the private domain“, for his part affirmed Olivier Véran, spokesperson for the government, on June 27 in the National Assembly, without specifying the date of the”Estates General of the Right to Information», Promised by the candidate Macron.
A strike fund was opened to support this unprecedented movement – the previous strike of 2016 had affected only one Sunday of publication – and a petition was launched, collecting more than 38,600 signatures on Saturday.
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