“ Journalism is contact and distance », said Hubert Beuve Mery, founder of the daily The world. But in their daily practice, political journalists have difficulty maintaining this distance: lunches, confidences supposed to be kept secret, frequent attendance, lead to the construction of a microcosm far removed from the concerns of voters.
A bubble where the little stories of the big guys, their pettiness and their political calculations take precedence over the substance of the debates. These practices have raised questions for a long time but seem immutable, and perhaps lead to a widening of the divide between the people and those who govern them. We will try to understand the mechanisms of a form of collusion between journalists and politicians.
With our guest :
Rachid Laïrechereport to Release. He signs “It’s only me that it shocks ? Eight years in the bubble of political journalists“, published by Les Arènes.