Reform of public broadcasting: final stage against a backdrop of strike

The bill, whose flagship measure is the abolition of advertising at France Televisions, has ceased since late October to be the subject of various amendments, and often controversial, to the special commission to examine .
The main points of the project, Jules Lavie (0'55 ")


UMP members have replaced the 3% tax on private channels, desired by the government to fund the shortfall for France Televisions, with a flexible fee may vary between 1.5% and 3%. A measure immediately denounced by the left and unions as a "gift to TF1." The majority also replaced the 0.9% tax on turnover of telecom operators by a progressive tax of between 0.5% and 0.9% depending on the results.

The mobilization has resulted in the morning by "disturbances" affecting the smooth running of antennas, as on France Inter. Or France Culture, which broadcast the music to 7am.
Elsewhere, as on our antenna or France 2, the editions were in "special".
Philippe Rochot, reporter for France 2, is on strike ... (0'30 ")


Very virulent against the "democratic regression" organized by law on public broadcasting, François Bayrou called Sunday a motion of censure is filed on it. The leader of the MoDem first denounced the proposed appointment of the President of France Televisions by the state and not by the Supreme Audiovisual Council. Furthermore, it is concerned about the "tourniquet" that represent the financial end of advertising for public broadcasters. Finally, the former presidential candidate believes that the procedures for the purpose of advertising is an "absolutely remarkable gift to private channels", which should also see their contributions reduced compared to the original bill.

We must reach an annual 450 million euros to compensate for the elimination of advertising from January 5 after 20h at France Televisions, its total disappearance is scheduled for late 2011. Before the rise of shield unions as "murder rule" the latest amendments, the government has increased the reassuring. In turn, the Culture Minister Christine Albanel and the chairman of the special commission Jean-François Copé reiterated that the sum of 450 million euros was "guaranteed" because "in the Finance Act 2009".
Impact of reform: many posts will be deleted. What welcomes a spokesman for the UMP he Frédéric Lefebvre. (0'52 ")


The bill, which also provides an annual indexation of the fee - currently 116 EUR - on inflation, also expands the use of advertising by private channels, including establishing second cut in the dissemination of fiction and films.

A France Televisions, the Inter sector called for the strike for Tuesday and demonstrated outside the National Assembly. "Employees are aware that the majority want our death and the reply will be at the level of aggression," says Jean-François Tealdi, member of the Inter of public broadcasting, citing amendments going "beyond of what was expected. "
Jean-François Tealdi, of the Inter has a very hard words against Nicolas Sarkozy ... (0'45 ")


The bill must be examined urgently - the vote is expected on December 9 in the National Assembly, the next day in the Senate - and will therefore subject to a single reading in each room.

"Hunger" in any useful hunger

Hunger, released six months after the broken shack in Cannes (dithyrambic press, or camera) is a film that more powerful. One of the ogres of the year. It appears especially as more responsive to what the time, as carved on the imaginary 2008. His gesture is all the aesthetic tour de force while simultaneously addressing a contemporary story so far poorly filmed: the hunger strike in 1980 Republican prisoners, members of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), at war against the England for the independence of Northern Ireland. A hunger strike that will end in October 1981 after the death of nine of them (including the leader, Bobby Sands, elected to the Assembly of Westminster from prison), Butantã to the inflexible policy of the "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher. Last, Hunger is signed by Steve McQueen, 39 years, the English artist most requested at the time. Beauty, truth, commitment, anger, suspicion of hype but with what to stomach: too good to be true? Something wrong? To do this, we will have to get up early. Brutality. The criticism is Hunger to count the points. McQueen points that mark with ease even more annoying that he had never previously worked with or players or scenario. Yet after an hour Forty of Christ happening in prisons, the impression of having been strikingly, in turn, this tenth prisoner, forgotten by chance in a corner of a dark movie theater became the fourth wall of a cell somewhere in the middle Ulster. You can always make the sourcilleux, screaming at the hostage-taking, the effect is there: Hunger has traced the white separatist Catholic embastillés QHS in the Maze. Imprisoned but continued to protest, refusing to wear the uniform infamous prisoner, then wash, sinking into a piece of shit huge (when outside is more crap) and do not always see their status as political prisoner recognized, refusing to ingest any food from the Loyalists. Hunger: French, hunger. The refusal by hunger. After an introduction tentative (first follow the tarts was not such a good idea), Hunger closes on us with the brutality of a door of brass is significant in the experience that we marry Good question, haggard in a daubings excrémentiel a Lascaux spread of dung. They have endured, and for weeks, you may well take a half-hour. The reward comes in the form of a hero, Bobby Sands (worn by the charismatic Michael Fassbender, currently being filmed in Tarantino), winner symbolic presence in everything he loses in physical thickness week after week, when, reaching sixty day of fasting, his body becomes something more than skeletal, stained, sick, reaching that point where everything seems to have already switched to the disappearance. Boby Sands is both Jesus, Northern Ireland working whole, the people missing and the addition of all injustices. A symbol in power. Fascination. That is why we can remain perplexed to hear McQueen certify that no, no, no, "the simplistic notions of hero, martyr, a victim" does not interest him. When Hunger is at its factory heroes. McQueen is bathed in theory too arty for not knowing that on this point his fascination has been stronger than its intention. This is not a criticism, film (as it is hooked to the old principle of identification) could never be quite the modern concept of the death of heroes. As soon as the leaves do, the film asks only this: men admire admirable.

Robert Saby, head of former Turkish nationalists of the SMS

The attack against the car of Robert Saby, the deputy director of the Judicial Police of Ajaccio, is that a new and disturbing episode of this dangerous affair Powell "revealed two months ago in Le Nouvel Observateur (" L 'Corsican case that worries the power, "by Ariane Chemin and Marie-France Etchegoin (09/10/08)).
Since 2006, investigators from the PJ interested in a private security company Corsican created in 2000 by former nationalist Ajaccienne converted into business. In November 2007, the court decides to continue the de facto manager of SMS, Antoine Nivaggioni for abuse of corporate assets, procurement fraud and money laundering. Alas! When the police want to "pick" at home, Nivagionni was beautiful. As a result, the suspicion that he was warned by friends of information takes shape in the PJ. Placed on wiretapping, Nivaggioni and his friends have indeed disturbing and frequent conversations with a former officer of RG in retirement, Didier Valley, but also with an official of the DCRG rue des Saussaies based in Paris. Both come from Marseille to be heard by judges Tournaire and Duchaine, who teach the "Powell case."
Robert Saby, he is a chief of the PJ of Ajaccio. The manager of the SMS and his friends do not appreciate. Twice already since the summer, it had been two officers involved. The first, the new head of football club (ACA) Ajaccio, Alain Orsoni, which, at a press conference on September 15, had not hesitated to publicly mention his name, accusing forging a "manipulation" and spread the rumor that it would be linked to a number of recent bloody settling of scores that have been underway for over a year in Corse-du-Sud.

Ad hominem attack

The second attack just Nivaggioni Antoine, a former lieutenant of'Alain Orsoni and FLNC-Canal usual in the mid-1990s. In a magazine interview in Corsica in November, since it gives the bush, the skipper of the SMS had no words harsh enough for this PJ who abandon its press run: "Tell [him] that it is better to go now because Squarcina is a manipulator perfectly able to kill "him through relatives, said a" Commissioner of the Directorate of Judicial Police of Ajaccio. An ad hominem attack, which insiders refer to the same commissioner Saby ( "War of the police in Corsica", Le Nouvel Observateur (09/11/2008)).
Asked about a leaflet circulating in Ajaccio involving links between the nationalists and police SMS GR, the fugitive also explained: "I read recently that Mr. Squarcina some police suspected of being behind This tract. (...) To simplify, I would say that s'(...) between some police that I have already put in question to others who simply do their job. "

The seizure IGPN

He took and what the boss of the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI), which, in an interview with the Nouvel Observateur ( "Squarcina wants to complain," (09/10/2008)), due for the first time this dark matter. "The tract is located from Bastia but he has no doubt South Ajaccienne. We can see settling of accounts between nationalists. But in this gibberish is recognized primarily a police jargon."
The day before the attack against the car of Robert Saby, the Director General of National Police (DGPN), Frédéric Péchenard, had already decided to seize the IGPN to investigate the actions of officers in RG. But so far, Robert Saby is the only one to have borne the brunt of this war policies. Three weeks ago, he learned he was transferred to Paris where he will join on 1 December the Central Office for the fight against illegal games ...

The African family Francois Dupeyron

"Help God help you" Film Francois Dupeyron, with Felicity Wouassi, Claude Rich, Mata Gabin. Running time: 1 h 32 Quietly but surely, Francois Dupeyron took place in French cinema. Deneuve and Depardieu led to his debut on the screen with strange place for a meeting. A few years later, he will be in competition at Cannes with La Chambre des officiers, superb adaptation of the novel by Marc Dugain on broken faces of 14-18. Quickly noted but never flashy, he departed willingly on roads traverse. On the side of peasants in What is life? or illegal Inguélézi. Less taste of social problems to listen beating hearts (A heart that beats, is another of its titles). Help with God help you, he landed in an African family in the suburbs of Paris. As the film was shot before the American elections, it does not taxera of Obamania. It preceded the current vogue. "It would be a mistake to promote it, wisely said the director. Moreover Obama introduced himself as a man, not as Black. " Dupeyron had seen or Hallelujah! or Carmen Jones, it was only "to work on the real today," and "turn with black players. Because I often noticed in the streets of the elderly, white, accompanied by carers black. And because I was surprised by the noise surrounding the arrival of Harry Roselmack on the television news. " D u real, yes, realism, no. The family apartment decorated with a southern air sunny we Mureaux away from where the action. Sonia (excellent Felicity Wouassi) works in laundry and home help. It is the pillar of the family, and it has to be done between a husband retired typing and it stings his savings to play, a dealer eldest son, another break-neck, a teen girl pregnant, l secondly it will marry. With worries daily dramas secrets, of Whimsical ups, an exuberant friend (Mata Gabin), an old neighbor love (Claude Rich), a comedy composed Dupeyron human warm and sensitive. "I do not fit the usual questions about the suburbs, he said. I am committed to exist African family, leaving just spend most of life in the film. Above all, do not produce, otherwise everything becomes tedious. The living Move naturally. It is in the drama, and then things light. Sonia has a motto: "There is always a solution." One must understand that the only solution is not obvious. Tomorrow who will, it's time, that's life. " "I look where born grace" That is part of the sky, included in the proverb "both open and sealed" says the filmmaker, who serves as a title: Help God help you. And that is the way in which Francois Dupeyron film designs. "I work a lot with rigor and discipline of a craftsman. And I have been slow to give me confidence to find on the shelf ease that I write: I do not know where I go, there is a freshness, a lightness that belong to life . How to change a situation without artifice? This is often a matter of mood, to find an agreement. When a catch is good, you know, but we do not know why. We did not find the solution, she came. Any part of my approach is: I am looking where born grace. The grace or love the same thing. "

Miss France: Candidates are already at Puy du Fou

That miss to PDF in the Grand Carrousel du Puy du Fou, where Genevieve de Fontenay and Sylvie Tellier iron have crossed this summer, that the election of Miss France 2009 will be held this Saturday December 6. (photo Erick Gey)

It does not chôme Puy du Fou at the end of the year!

If the spectacle of Christmas, the symphony of Bethlehem is in full rehearsal for the 16 performances scheduled from 13 to 22 December (see article), others have already begun rehearsals in Puy du Fou: those of the Miss France election 2009 to be held at the Grand Carrousel on Saturday December 6.

Broadcast live on TF1, by Jean-Pierre Foucault, the TV event of the year, followed by more than 10 million viewers.

Parts of Phuket (Thailand) last Friday, the 36 miss, accompanied by Genevieve de Fontenay and Sylvie Tellier, arrived in Puy du Fou on Saturday morning.

The Grand Carrousel typed in the eye of the Miss France

"The Grand Carrousel typed in the eye of the Miss France. They really want to do a show different from what we saw at the moment, "said Albert Lawrence, director of Grand Park.

"They want to give a helping teens to the show," said association president of the Puy du Fou, Nicolas de Villiers.

If the 36 will miss very often in the Grand Carrousel to repeat the show on Saturday December 6, they also turn in the Grand Park, giving rise to new sequences.

The Miss will lead tanks, approaching the big cats ...

"They will learn to drive a tank, approaching the big cats, birds. They will create costumes and courses, flamenco, lists Retailleau Sebastian, Deputy Director General of Grand Park.

In the wake of the miss is a production team of 400 people who will land on November 30 for 7 days editing.

1 000 projectors and 17 HD digital cameras are fixed on 2650 m2 of the stage of the Grand Carousel, with a maximum security, the issue being broadcast live.

The show promises to be grandiose with 9 tables combining choreography by Laura Trier to the pyrotechnics, water jets or equestrian paintings, know-how of the Puy du Fou.

Elodie Martineau, Miss Pays de Loire, is vendéenne and former puyfolaise

Line Renaud will be the president of a jury of Kenzo Takada, Henri-Jean Servat, Rachel Legrain-Trapani (Miss France 2007) or even Benoit Poelvoorde, Patrice Leconte.


Who will succeed Valerie Bègue, Miss France 2008? At Puy du Fou, we would see Miss Pays de Loire, Elodie Martineau, former puyfolaise be the future ambassador of beauty, charm and elegance to the French.

The crusade of Antoinette Brown Isabelle Nataf

It could have been a great story: that of a woman who takes all the risks to hide Jewish children during World War II. But not this version is where history will Antoinette Brown. For if this fifties actually saved kids from deportation, his religious fanaticism has driven in excess that triggered a scandal in France of the post-war.

With the complicity of the Church

Antoinette Brown, to keep it from Robert and Gerald Finally, while their parents died in concentration camps and their aunt living in Israel, claims, is baptized. And as it is not enough, with the complicity of the Church, which considers that now the two small Christian owned, Antoinette Brown hides, first in France, then moved to Spain.

In reading an article on the Vatican archives which told how Pope Pius XII had given instructions not to Jewish children baptized, that producer Elizabeth Boston and screenwriter Philippe Bernard had an idea of what TV Directed by Fabrice Genestal.

"We focused on two aspects: Antoinette Brown and the role of the Church in this case, the writer explains. It was left for doubt about the fact that it acted out of financial interest. The idea I have of it is that of a mad woman, who never had children and after the war, was given the role of a heroine. It was sincerely convinced by its mission. "In interpreting the role of Antoinette Brown -" it was certainly not make a witch "- the choice was made on Charlotte de Turckheim. A new role for actress accustomed comedies, in which it is unrecognizable and formidable.

The second angle, the responsibility of the Church, not evaded, something rare on television. A TV necessary and quality.

Dati ring erased: "The Figaro journalists find this lamentable retouching"

Let this couacs discovery of the ring Dati ...
"The famous photo was published last Wednesday. The Express has noticed on Thursday. Lack of luck, one of the Society of Editors was present on Thursday. On Thursday night, colleagues called me to ask what I thought of this story, but I was not yet aware. On Friday morning, Etienne Mougeotte who called me and requested an appointment as soon as possible with the Society of Editors, please was taken for Monday morning. He apologized immediately. "

What do journalists of writing this retouching?
"They find it appalling. We do not understand the intellectual approach of this act. The primary reflex when a picture is not appropriate is to change it. Especially a photo of Rachida Dati, it is not a rare commodity. In addition, Rachida Dati is a minister, she is taking photo in the Senate, and she chooses to wear this ring. Basically, I really do not see where the problem lies. "

It is still a ring more than 15 000 ...
"Apparently, in writing people did not know. And then, the price is not displayed, it could very well be a ring of a lesser value."

More generally, how it happens in Figaro with Etienne Mougeotte?
"This is no more tense than Nicolas Beytout (former editorial director of Le Figaro editor's note). With Nicolas Beytout, at the beginning was the state of grace, and end it became very complicated . We're not there yet with Etienne Mougeotte. It is much more diplomatic. Afterwards it is true that the atmosphere is not great, but it is neither better nor worse than before. We are also facing a difficult situation economically. "

One has the impression that journalists Figaro assume less and less editorial of the newspaper ...
"There were several motions challenging the partisan excesses of the newspaper. But the direction of writing does not see where is the problem. Yes, Le Figaro newspaper is right for us is in agreement. But after The news is news. We remain very vigilant. One thing is certain, it should not be that the history of the photo again, especially since this is not the first time. When Nicolas Beytout was still then there was the story of Chirac and Japanese banker. We had done a paper on this banker sulfur, and to illustrate the article, we had a photo where he was next to Chirac, the coup , Chirac was blackened. We had already protested at the time. "