Eric Zemmour quits his show on CNews after CSA decision

The polemicist Eric Zemmour, whose speaking time in the audiovisual media is now deducted by decision of the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA), will no longer be able to “Continue the show” of which he was a columnist on CNews, announced Monday, September 13 the chain in a press release. “Although Eric Zemmour has not declared himself a candidate for the presidential election which will take place in seven months, the CSA” forced CNews to this decision, regrets the channel.

The host of the show “Face à l’Info”, Christine Kelly, welcomed the departure of her columnist on Twitter Monday morning.

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Not yet officially a presidential candidate

Wednesday September 8, the Superior council of audio-visual (CSA) had asked the television channels to count down, from the next day, the speaking time of the polemicist. This unprecedented decision, which applies to all the channels where Eric Zemmour intervenes, in fact mainly concerned CNews. The Canal + news channel (Vivendi) made the reactionary essayist the star of “Face à l’Info”, a daily one-hour program broadcast Monday through Friday, between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. A showcase for the polemicist and a boon for the channel, which, night after night, wins the best audience of all the news channels (700,000 viewers on average last season).

If Eric Zemmour is not officially a candidate for the presidential election, the CSA considered that in view of recent developments, he could henceforth be regarded, both by his positions and his actions and by the comments to which they give rise, as an actor in the national political debate . The columnist protested against a decision which “Do not surprise him after the threats of the government with barely covered words”, but which undermines its ” job “ journalist (he holds the press card) and “To pluralism”, he launched in a statement released Wednesday evening on his Twitter account and titled “Censorship: the CSA takes over from the judges”. “I will not be silent”, he concluded.

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