Adèle van Reeth persists on the substance, but recognizes errors of form. Targeted by a motion of no confidence signed by 80% of France Inter editorial staff this summer, the station director returns to Liberation on this eventful year. She remembers from the daily, this Saturday, November 30: “The motion of no confidence was the climax of a difficult year which began in October with the Guillaume Meurice joke.” The comedian was fired from the station for serious misconduct, after comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “a kind of Nazi but without a foreskin”.
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But for Adèle van Reeth, it was a second event which deteriorated her relationship with certain journalists at the station. “The bond of trust with part of the editorial staff was broken following my decision to entrust the political editorial to Patrick Cohen and to remove it from Yaël Goosz.she believes. And it is also on this point that she recognizes a fault: “I accept this decision but I admit that I did it wrong.. I should have involved the editorial team more.”
“A form of unpopularity is inevitable”
The manager, a trained philosopher, therefore recognizes that the unilateral nature of the decision may have been shocking. “Some journalists experienced it as a disavowal and I didn't see that comingshe judges. It allowed me to have discussions, sometimes individually with certain members of the editorial staff, that I had not had before“.
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Almost five months after the motion of no confidence against her, Adèle van Reeth nevertheless wants to move forward: “My concern is that everyone can express themselves, and they were able to do so, some came to me, I went to see others, and I try to maintain this dialogue so that there is fewer possible misunderstandings. Let people understand my intentions, my decisions. Afterwards, that it creates a form of unpopularity is inevitable.”
Neither left nor right
The station director also denies any political orientation, or desire to right-wing France Inter. “Thinking that I am under the influence of my companion's ideas [Raphaël Enthoven] or opinion lobbies, even Emmanuel Macron… When I hear that, I have the impression that we are talking about someone else”she regrets, pointing out “trial of intent” and “fake news“For the leader, this fear of a politicization of the antenna would not be “not rational”.
If she defends herself from any steering wheel to the right, Adèle van Reeth also defends herself from any direction to the left. For her, France Inter “is not at all a left-wing petty-bourgeois radio station“. “Our strongest progress is in popular categories; 80% of our listeners are outside Paris”she justifies. “Nour course is pluralism”she insists. Hoping to convince his detractors from the outside as well as the inside.
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