LThe news broadcast is taking extra minutes. Starting Monday, September 9, the France 2 news broadcast will last one hour, instead of around forty minutes today. A large format that is unprecedented in the world of French small screens.
According to information from the Figarothis extension of the duration will be effective for both the weekday editions, presented by Anne-Sophie Lapix, and the weekend editions, presented by Laurent Delahousse. “The uses of information have changed,” observes Alexandre Kara, the director of information at France Télévisions, to the daily.
Acknowledging “a major evolution in light of the history of 8pm news,” Alexandre Kara believes that “through social networks and continuous news channels there is an acceleration of information.” “Sometimes an excess of information, sometimes a lack of explanations, pedagogy and sometimes a lack of nuance,” he continues.
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According to Alexandre Kara, “the diagnosis that everyone can make is the disaffection of a part of the French for newspapers, due to anxiety, infobesity, problems of trust.”
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To remedy this situation, France 2 therefore intends to “press the pause button in order to recontextualize the information, provide understanding and not leave viewers alone”. However, the number of subjects broadcast each evening – a dozen – should not […] Read more
