2023-09-20 08:41:28
The Media will not be accessible on TNT, but on connected televisions and Internet boxes. PHILIPPE TURPIN / PHOTONONSTOP / PHILIPPE TURPIN / PHOTONONSTOP
The formula “September 23, 2023: let’s take the streets again, all together against Macron and his world” is not taken from a leaflet, but from the online news channel Le Média, which relays this call to demonstrate against police violence, launched by victims’ groups, unions, and political parties, such as the New Anti-Capitalist Party or La France Insoumise. In five years of eventful existence, Le Média has already experienced several lives. On October 20, he will begin a new chapter by launching on ” the small screen “.
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On July 12, in fact, the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) signed an agreement – the text which sets out its regulatory commitments – with “the chain that makes Macron tremble”, as proclaimed in a promotional film broadcast on the networks. Far from being able to compete with continuous news channels, it will not be accessible on DTT, but on connected televisions and Internet boxes. At this stage, only the Free operator (6 million connected homes) has committed to offering it on channel 350.
Anti-racist struggles, defense of minorities and workers, fights against homophobia, presenter wearing the veil (Nadiya Lazzouni): The Media is resolutely close to the radical left. “We will bring a voice focused on the left, but pluralist”, promises journalist Cemil Sanli. The editor-in-chief, Théophile Kouamouo, claims the ecumenism of Media, and cites the diversity of political figures invited on the air, from the ecofeminist deputy Sandrine Rousseau, to the representatives of the Trotskyist party Permanent Revolution, including Guilhem Carayon, former president of the Young Republicans.
“Assumed left-wing media”
Decolonial themes will find pride of place there. Among the next programs planned (in a schedule where rebroadcasts are the majority), that hosted by the activist Seumboy, “heir to French colonial history”which will propose “look our common history in the face”. In addition to the economist Thomas Porcher and the political scientist specializing in international relations Bertrand Badie, the former France Inter journalist Françoise Degois will participate in the daily debate show.
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Apart from this channel, Release et Humanity, “there is no assertive left-wing media nor left-wing editorialists who have not become Macronists. There aren’t any on TV either.”explains the former advisor to Ségolène Royal in the 2007 presidential election, who describes herself as “hot pink social democrat”. Despite its absence from TNT, Le Média dreams of becoming a counterweight to CNews and “his right-wing and far-right agenda” et facing BFM-TV, too close to “the Macronist order”, to the taste of Mr. Kouamouo.
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