“Our Manichean world is divided in two: the pros and cons, the good side and the reactionary, irreconcilable bad guys. Every truly free man must nevertheless have one foot in the opposing camp. » This wish is Alexandre Devecchio, deputy editor-in-chief of the discussion pages of the Figarowho formulated it, Wednesday, June 29, in the chronicle “In all subjectivity”, on France Inter. His wish was largely granted: all last season, the conservative columnist put his (right) foot in this ” enemy camp “ what does it mean, for him and the newspaper that employs him, public radio.
Beyond his person, the year that is ending will have shown that, in the “Manichean world” that Alexandre Devecchio describes, the “reactionary villains” ceased to be pariahs on radio antennas and television channels. Eric Zemmour, pillar of television sets since 2003 who has become a candidate for the presidential election, and a whole generation of conservative voices have taken up residence in the audiovisual media, all the more welcoming as the electoral context subjected them to the reinforced rules of pluralism. . On arrival, 91 far-right deputies, including 89 from the National Rally (RN), have just entered the National Assembly.
The faces of these new reactionaries are now familiar. Eugenie Bastie of FigaroGabrielle Cluzel and Marc Baudriller from the ultra-conservative news site Boulevard Voltairebut also the nationalist essayist Mathieu Bock-Côté, the journalist of the weekly Current values Charlotte d’Ornellas and the editors and deputy editors, Geoffroy Lejeune and Tugdual Denis… All of them have contributed to popularizing certain theses and the rhetoric of the far right to viewers of CNews, BFM-TV, France Télévisions, as well only to listeners from Europe 1, France Inter, RTL, Radio Classique.
Social networks have their share of responsibility: by allowing the most peppery debates to prosper without limit or almost, they have contributed to raising certain taboos and contaminated certain traditional media. The public debate has thus been able to focus, in recent months, on the death penalty, the protection allegedly provided by Marshal Pétain to French Jews, the place of Muslims in the Republic, or even the racist theory of the “great replacement”.
“How could this notion emerge, without anyone wondering when it appeared, who forged it? There was no debate about this concept and its origin”, notes Jean-Yves Camus. When this far-right specialist received the book by Renaud Camus, the writer who popularized the expression, from his publisher in 2010, the latter “did not bet a kopeck on it”, he recalls. In the fall of 2021, the essayist, received on CNews by Ivan Rioufol, a young retiree from Figarowas delighted to be taken over by the candidate of Reconquest!.
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