Does Geoffroy Lejeune live his last hours at the head of the editorial management of the far-right weekly Current values ? The article from the specialized press site The letter aThursday, October 20, announcing his next replacement by Jean-Michel Salvator, sowed doubt internally, a journalist from his team admitting to being “confused” by the situation. “No decision has been made”assures, for his part, Francis Morel, administrator of the holding company which owns Valmonde, the group that owns the weekly.
However, he acknowledges “discussions between the shareholder and Geoffroy Lejeune, as often happens”. According to our information, the arrival of Jean-Michel Salvator, 61, should not delay any longer. After two years at the head of the Parisian, Mr. Salvator had left his position as editorial director at the beginning of September, in favor of Nicolas Charbonneau. Its editorial positions had been challenged on several occasions by the society of journalists of the daily, reluctant to see the newspaper adopt partisan positions.
Outrageous editorial line
Former of Figarowhere he worked alongside Nicolas Beytout, Etienne Mougeotte and Alexis Brézet, themselves representatives of different currents that run through the right, Jean-Michel Salvator’s mission would be to make Current values a weekly of “assumed right, but not extreme right”, assures someone close to the file. A more moderate editorial line than that printed by Geoffroy Lejeune, a 30-year-old assuming himself as “react”, daily guest on the CNews channel, under the supervision of Vincent Bolloré.
Jean-Michel Salvator would have the mission of making a weekly of “assumed right, but not of the far right”, assures a person close to the file
Although he says “at the service of anyone”Mr. Lejeune put Eric Zemmour, whom he does not hide from admiring and to whom he devoted a book in 2015 (A regular election, Ring), on the front page of the magazine seven times during the presidential campaign. A risky choice: not only 26% of readers surveyed in April by the IFOP polling institute said they were ready to vote for Emmanuel Macron – against 25% for Marine Le Pen and 24% for Eric Zemmour – but sales were not better. On the contrary, they accused a significant drop.
The outrageous editorial line gave the weekly a much higher media visibility than its actual sales allowed it to hope for. As for advertising revenues, they had been reduced to a trickle on digital since the Sleeping Giants collective had undertaken to publicly challenge the brands that financed the newspaper by allowing their ads to appear on its site, so that they get out of it. The printed version of the weekly does not count any more.
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