Nothing is going well between Jean-Jacques Bourdin and his former employer BFMTV. The news channel said it wanted to file a complaint against the journalist, who has increased criticism of him.
“The successive denigrations of Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourdin towards Altice Media, BFM, RMC, its employees and managers, will be the subject of appropriate legal proceedings,” we can read in a press release.
Bourdin destroyed BFMTV
Guest on the set of C media this weekend, Jean-Jacques Bourdin simply destroyed BFMTV. According to him, the channel no longer has an editorial line and should return to its fundamentals: “That is to say a real news channel! Ruquier, it is a real news channel. Why is it that doesn’t work? Mixing genres! When you’re a journalist, you’re a journalist! When you make a news show, you make a news show! We don’t mix genres!” he assures.?
“If Marc-Olivier Fogiel leaves, I will go to BFMTV!”
The journalist then attacked Marc-Olivier Fogiel. “He constantly called me saying: ‘We should invite so-and-so, we should…’ Never! I always refused the slightest headset. I can’t work in these conditions! So if Marc-Olivier Fogiel s ‘Go away, I’ll go to BFMTV!’, Jean-Jacques Bourdin then assured.
The journalist, who now works at Sud Radio, seems not to have digested his forced departure from the channel a year ago. He was ousted following a sexual assault complaint filed by one of his former colleagues.
“I was deeply bruised by the way in which my departure from BFMTV took place,” he declared in the columns of Figaro just after his ouster. Jean-Jacques Bourdin assured at the time that he would not seek to settle scores with BFMTV. A year later, the rag continues to burn…