On Tuesday, April 12, the National Republic’s presidential candidate Marine Le Pen assumed the marginalization of journalists in the television program “Quotidien” (on TMC) accused of promoting ” entertainment “ not from “Information”On the sidelines of a press conference on institutions and democratic life.
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“I’ve never heard, I think, any of your colleagues complaining about the way they have been treated in this presidential campaign, even if it is sometimes very difficult given the number”, confirmed Marine Le Pen, visiting Vernon, in Eeyore, when asked about the sometimes stormy relationship between her party and the press. She claimed not choosing journalists who were most likely to follow her: “I have not done this before.”
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“It’s an entertaining show”
After her relaunch about the ostracism that TMC journalists would be particularly victims of in pursuing her campaign, Marine Le Pen asserted: “There are no journalists in “Daily” […] It is not a news or press program. It’s an artist, and sometimes very funny, it’s an entertaining show. »
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Relations between the National Front and the press were at times fraught with tension. In September 2019, RN temporarily withdrew press accreditation from “Liberation” for coverage of his summer school in Fréjus (Var), following the daily broadcast of an RN mayor’s portrait of the city. In Mayotte, in December, the media Mayotte Hebdo protested the ban imposed by the National Assembly on one of its journalists to continue to follow Marine Le Pen’s campaign on the island.
Journalists from Mediapart (until this campaign) and “Quotidien” are not always accredited for candidate press conferences or meetings.
