The announcement of the end of the program launched in 1998 aroused the anger of Michel Cymes and Marina Carrère d’Encausse but also the indignation of many health professionals.
The story ends well for “Le Magazine de la santé”. France Télévisions, which had announced the end of the show at the start of the next school year, has changed its mind. The program, launched in 1998 by Michel Cymes, will ultimately be part of the public service back-to-school schedules.
Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, the program director of France Télévisions, spoke on the subject in the columns of La Tribune Dimanche. “I always listen to the concerns that are expressed. I clearly saw that the suppression of the Health Magazine had caused a stir. I understand the attachment to this historic France 5 program and we therefore finally decided to extend it”he explained.
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The anger of Michel Cymes and Marina Carrère d’Encausse
At the start of the year, the public service announced to the “Health Magazine” teams that the show would be stopping on May 31. News which aroused the anger of Marina Carrère d’Encausse and Michel Cymes who produce the program via the company June 17 Media. “It seems unthinkable to me that there will be no health in the public service at the start of the school yearthe host of the program told us. For me, this is part of the missions of public service.” Thursday April 18, Michel Cymes, then guest of “C à vous” on France 5, did not mince his words: “There will no longer be regular medical and health broadcasts, even though this is the second most important point emphasized by the French after purchasing power. To fight against fake news, there will no longer be “The Health Magazine” and I find it dramatic.”
The host also detailed on air the reasons which, according to him, would explain the sudden end of the show. “ We are a collateral victim of a war between the majority shareholder of the production house which is TF1 and France Télévisions (…). There was a complaint from TF1 against France Télévisions and France Télévisions reacted, I am not going to take a position on whether they did the right thing or not, but by removing a few programs including “Le Magazine de la Santé”.”
In the interview he gave to La Tribune on Sunday, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez responded to this point. “Newen is a subsidiary of TF1 and our third program supplier. We have been criticized for saving money on their programs. This is not our intention. We will continue to call on them for their good projects as with all producers”did he declare.
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A great excitement in the medical and scientific sphere
The announcement of the termination of the program also caused a stir in the medical and scientific sphere. In January, 170 personalities, including former minister Agnès Buzyn, opposed the disappearance of the show from France Télévisions through a forum relayed by Le Figaro. On April 26, nine associations of science journalists also raised their voices, expressing concern, in a column published in Libération, about the place of science broadcasts on France Télévisions. Regarding the one presented by Marina Carrère d’Encausse, the signatories highlighted its determining role: “Ending a quality daily program seems to us to send a very bad signal in the fight against disinformation, which is nevertheless one of the commitments of public television. The work of specialized journalists capable of selecting verified information as well as the intervention of recognized experts is essential. We also remind you that health is not a theme like any other. Behind the screen, patients’ lives are at stake.they wrote.
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Jimmy Mohamed alone in charge
“The health magazine” will therefore return at the start of the school year in a renewed version. Marina Carrère d’Encausse will no longer be at the presentation. Since September, she has already shared the airwaves with Jimmy Mohamed. It was the latter who was chosen to succeed him. “We are working with the Newen teams to develop a new formula for the magazinenotes Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez. Jimmy Mohamed will be alone in charge there every day. But Marina Carrère d’Encausse keeps the presentation of “Health Survey” in the first part of the evening and we work with her on social documentaries, like the film on the end of life that she made there is a few months old and has had a big impact. »
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