Jacques CHIRAC is questioned by Arlette CHABOT about the electoral campaign for the presidential election which is fast approaching. She asks him if he will go all the way and if he does not intend to give up. Puzzled Jacques CHIRAC then asks him: "Are you talking seriously where you are doing humor? Let’s be serious, please".
Replying to a question by Albert Du Roy on the filing of information via his bank card, Jacques Chirac answers with a certain sufficiency that a Commission has been created (Commission Informatique et Liberté) and a Secretary for Human Rights to respect individual freedoms. The journalist finds that he treats "with great contempt the worries" of the French, Jacque Chirac answers annoyed "but no I do not treat with much contempt the worries Monsieur Du Roy". He reassured his interlocutor by declaring "Do I look like someone who wants to violate human rights?"
Jacques CHIRAC is waiting to be on the air to express himself in duplex. He laughs "So what do they have the two, you have to heat the device or what?". Very quickly, he went on to make some very serious comments: the results of the second round of the legislative election in Paris. Following the declaration, the Mayor of Paris rose and left. Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH stresses: "In other words, Mr Chirac renounces the conversation with the television studios".
Guest of the newspaper, Jacques CHIRAC, President of the RPR, is interviewed by Etienne LEENHARDT and Arlette CHABOT. - Etienne LEENHARDT "Who is talking to us? The Mayor of Paris, the President of the RPR or the next President?" - Jacques CHIRAC "This is Jacques Chirac speaking to you" - E.L: "Who is Jacques Chirac?" "Listen, I know you’re a young journalist, but I still thought that this information had reached you"...
Jean FERNIOT, former editor-in-chief of "L'Express" and editorial writer at RTL, talks about his relationship with politicians during his career as a political journalist in newspapers and news stations: "I had relationships that excluded all political allegiance...I invited them or they invited me... it was a relationship of equal and total independence". He says however: "I never had the slightest illusion about (political) men but I never had any contempt for them either."
Journalists Edwy PLENEL, director of Mediapart and former director of Le Monde, and Eric ZEMMOUR, political journalist, give their opinion on how to mark the distance with political figures, For the former, vouvoiement is required to mark this distance, for the latter it is not important except on television where the tutoiement can give the impression to the viewer that there is complicity of the journalist and the politician.
Jean Ferniot, former editor-in-chief of "L'Express" and editorial writer at RTL, discusses the form of censorship that journalists exercise on politicians: when a policy involved fellow journalists, all journalists launched the "cemetery procedure". The politician was no longer quoted in the newspapers for a certain period of time. And Philippe TESSON, founder and director of the "Paris Daily", added: "what is the worst disgrace for a politician. He explains that this form of set-aside is now done naturally according to their sympathy rating... He points out that today doing journalism is less pleasant than under the Fourth Republic. The Fifth Republic sanitized and technicalized political life and made the President of the Republic "untouchable".
Nicolas POINCARRE talks from the front of the National Assembly with Alain DUHAMEL, political columnist at "RTL". Alain DUHAMEL receives political figures at his home: "we cannot talk about politics if we do not know the political actors". He refutes the accusations of collusion: "I do not depend on anyone, I am not influenced by anyone". Alain DUHAMEL admits to receiving only the politques for which he has personal sympathy, consideration.
Philippe TESSON, founder and director of the "Daily de Paris", evokes the complicity that can exist between journalists and politicians. According to him, journalism and politics are both public services. There is also a human factor: the relationship of friendship, trust, emotional relationship sometimes. He said he had kept close relations with left-wing leaders he had known in the past, "without compromising or compromising". Jean FERNIOT, former editor-in-chief of "L'Express" and columnist at RTL, concluded: "We must not believe that journalists are yes-men".
In an interview granted by the President of the Republic Nicolas SARKOZY to David PUJADAS, the Head of State said a few words about journalists: "I love passionate journalists", "it is a difficult job to be a journalist", "there are behaviours of a few that do not honor the profession but the profession as a whole it does a very difficult job with the demand of the public that is growing larger".
Intreviewé on the relationship between politicians and journalists, François BAYROU, president of the Modem, explains how these two professions develop a certain closeness (shared emotions, a certain revelation of private lives...), going so far as to say "we are in the same factory"
Catherine Nay, a journalist at Europe 1, talks about journalists' rather brief and distanced reports with politicians when they follow them in election campaigns. So there is no reason to compromise. On the other hand, she thinks that we should see very little the President of the Republic: if we go to too many lunches, then we are part of the seraglio... " He represents millions of voters who voted for him, an exorbitant power, we find him a special charm, inevitably". "I made a rule to see him as little as possible... so much the better he does not like me".
François HOLLANDE, deputy and president of the General Council of the Corrèze, and Laurent JOFFRIN, director of the publication of Libération, speak about the relationship between journalists and politicians. François HOLLANDE evokes his long-standing friendship with Laurent Joffrin, however "if he happens to make an editorial, including about me, he will have quite at heart not to let anything show of our friendship, because it is so". Laurent JOFFRIN asserts that friendship is impossible at the level of the newspaper, if someone close to you is caught in a case "at best you say it is not me who would make the paper (...) not to appear to murder someone close to you"
Catherine NAY, political journalist, briefly lists the different categories of "bad sleepers" in politics and details a little that of the "narcissus" who speaks about him instead of his project. Christine CLERC, political journalist, continues on this personality, for whom only the image counts, the cliché... "it is very frustrating for journalists"
Interview on the proximity that there can be between political figures and journalists. Anna BITTON CABANA, a political journalist, talks about fascination and the very passionate relationship between these two professions. Michèle COTTA thinks that we must like to be interested in what politicians do, in their trajectory; you need "a certain interest and even from time to time a certain affection".
Excerpt from the interview of Jacques CHIRAC by Elise LUCET live from Angoulème (Charente). The President of the Republic evokes the occult financing of the RPR revealed by Jean-Claude MERY: "I am indignant by the process, indignant by the lie, indignant by the outrage... There must be limits to the slander... Today, we report an abracadabrantesque story... We make talk of a man who died more than a year ago, we dissect on unbelievable facts, we exhume a recording made more than four years ago whose words are unverifiable and without legal validity... All this before a referendum to improve the functioning of democracy... These allegations are unworthy and untrue... I ask that these elements be brought to justice so that the truth will sweep away the slander."
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