In the context of an interview granted to the site Puremedias.com about her arrival on the air of the parliamentary channel LCP, Mazarine Pingeot, the daughter of the late President François Mitterrand, spoke of her past as a hidden child.
Mainly known for being the hidden daughter of the former President of the Republic François Mitterrandwho died in 1996, Mazarine Pingeot was recruited by the parliamentary channel LCP to take charge of the program entitled Les Grands Entretiens. The trained philosopher had not appeared on the air since the end of the emblematic program of Paris Première, Ça balance à Paris, she was working on Eric Naulleau. Columnist on Europe 1 and France Culture in the past, Mazarine Pingeot gave an interview to the site Puremedias.com, on the occasion of her arrival on LCP.
During this interview, the daughter of François Mitterrand notably evoked in a half-word his past as a hidden child. At the question “What relationship do you have with the media knowing that part of your life you have been forced to flee from them?“, Mazarine Pingeot replied: “Today, it is completely peaceful. But for a long time it was complicated. I could have not done any at all. But when Michel Field thought of me, it was a way for me to tame this thing that had exposed me a lot against my will and also to trivialize my image. I overcame my angst and it worked“.
Mazarine Pingeot: “Cyril Hanouna embodies populism in all its splendour”
During this same interview, the philosopher was extremely harsh towards Cyril Hanouna. “I think he embodies populism in all its splendor and which is nevertheless also specific to our time. Cyril Hanouna has insane power in the sense that what he says unfortunately has a lot of impact. He has the means to broadcast it also quite simply: he has a channel in his hands (C8, editor’s note). The result of what he proposes, namely the privatization of the channels, is exactly what he is. A channel with ever more ‘entertainment’ (entertainment, editor’s note) and drawn into a race for profits. The race for profits means that speech is no longer indexed either to the truth or to the verification of facts but to buzz“, she pointed out.