Le point final du journaliste
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0:00 - 0:07(Thierry Fischer) 23 journalists, 5 graphic
designers, 2 picture editors, 1 proofreader -
0:07 - 0:111 accountant, 1 secretary,
3 marketing professionals. -
0:12 - 0:17Last Thursday the society of editors
and staff of Ringier / Axel Springer -
0:17 - 0:18released a statement,
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0:18 - 0:23information that specifies the number
of employees dismissed -
0:23 - 0:28after the decision of the German-Swiss
publisher to cease publication -
0:28 - 0:31of the French magazine L'Hebdo.
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0:31 - 0:32Michel Danthe, good morning.
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0:32 - 0:34(Michel Danthe) Hello, Thierry Fischer.
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0:34 - 0:36(TF) Thank you very much for being live
on Médialogues this morning, -
0:36 - 0:39(MD) Yes, there's this - we're coming
out of three long weeks. -
0:39 - 0:43If you ask me how I'm doing,
I'll tell you that I slept badly -
0:43 - 0:44lately.
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0:44 - 0:47We will reassure our audience:
when the same question was put -
0:47 - 0:52to Ralph Büchi who is our CEO,
who returned -
0:52 - 0:56from his sunny holidays in Verbier
on Wednesday to tell us -
0:56 - 0:59The sad news shortly before
everyone else, -
0:59 - 1:01he told us that he slept very well,
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1:01 - 1:05he apologized a little for being
so tanned, but here it is: -
1:05 - 1:10He announced this news and since
I think it's not only -
1:10 - 1:12The negotiating team and the team -
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1:12 - 1:16the editors who are sleeping
very badly, but also -
1:16 - 1:19all those who have witnessed
a brutal end -
1:19 - 1:23to their professional career
in the newspapers they loved, -
1:23 - 1:24in the newspapers they defended,
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1:24 - 1:29in the newspapers that they really
inhabited with their presence, their pen, -
1:29 - 1:30with their intelligence.
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1:30 - 1:33Anyway, that makes 36 people,
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1:33 - 1:3836 people whose professional
fortunes are affected. -
1:38 - 1:42So here it is, it's actually a -
some rather sad weeks. -
1:43 - 1:47It comes after long preparation;
we'd say that we have a publisher -
1:48 - 1:50who's a specialist in slow cooking
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1:50 - 1:55and who had already implied to us
in September of last year -
1:55 - 1:57That there would be things.
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1:57 - 2:02These things, they have obviously
added to the anxiety of the staff, -
2:02 - 2:06the anxiety of all those who were
fighting for L'Hebdo to survive, -
2:06 - 2:09so that Le Temps, also,
can defend its position -
2:09 - 2:11in this French-Swiss media landscape.
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2:12 - 2:15So long months of waiting,
long months of anguish. -
2:15 - 2:20And then, well, this anguish
and this waiting culminated, -
2:20 - 2:23so to speak, for the first time on 23 January,
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2:23 - 2:25when they came to tell us
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2:25 - 2:28that it was necessary to cut 37 posts.
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2:28 - 2:33After that our editor launched
into a Blitzkrieg, a little. -
2:33 - 2:36It's a bit like the Guderian divisions
invading Poland, -
2:36 - 2:38if I may say so.
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2:38 - 2:43They left us 10 days to react
to this situation: -
2:43 - 2:4937 posts to cut, to eliminate,
10 days to think, -
2:49 - 2:5210 days to establish a negotiating team.
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2:52 - 3:0010 days to consult, give our opinion
and our alternative economy measures. -
3:00 - 3:02That is what we did last week.
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3:02 - 3:06In 5 days the management pronounced
on these alternative measures, -
3:06 - 3:09they have refused and declined all of them.
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3:09 - 3:13They consisted, for the record,
if people do not know, -
3:13 - 3:21of sending to early retirement the
executives who had led to such a disaster, -
3:21 - 3:28The director of Ringier Romandie and one of the
editors in chief of this newsroom, -
3:28 - 3:30of this ill-disciplined group which has -
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3:30 - 3:33(TF) Daniel Pillard and Alain Jeannet,
respectively. -
3:34 - 3:35(MD) That's right, yes.
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3:36 - 3:38Also save on premises,
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3:38 - 3:40Because we have extremely
bling-bling premises, -
3:40 - 3:42premises which are there to look impressive,
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3:42 - 3:47to be able to exhibit works of art from
Michael Ringier's collection. -
3:47 - 3:53And so it was proposed to tighten up
a little more to save money, -
3:53 - 3:55to tighten up a little more
to save jobs. -
3:55 - 3:59All this has been refused and today
we are facing this disaster. -
4:00 - 4:01(TF) How are you -
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4:01 - 4:05that's precisely the question that I was
going to ask you, you have anticipated me, -
4:05 - 4:08Michel Danthe, one senses
in your testimony, -
4:08 - 4:10and thank you for coming
to our studio this morning, -
4:10 - 4:15one obviously senses in your testimony
that it is charged. -
4:15 - 4:17We will go into the details
of what happened -
4:17 - 4:19during the previous 3 weeks,
just before that. -
4:20 - 4:23Of course, the French-speaking public,
French-speaking readers -
4:23 - 4:25have come across your byline, inevitably,
-
4:25 - 4:27because you have long experience,
-
4:27 - 4:30you are one of the journalists who count
in French-speaking Switzerland, -
4:30 - 4:33you've been a journalist for
nearly 40 years -
4:34 - 4:36in numerous French-speaking newsrooms.
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4:36 - 4:39Trained at the Journal de Genève,
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4:39 - 4:42now dismissed from editorial staff
at Le Temps, -
4:42 - 4:47between the two, Le Courrier,
Le Nouveau Quotidien, -
4:47 - 4:48you were editor in chief
at Matin Dimanche - -
4:48 - 4:50(MD) So, Le Courrier, I have
never worked at Le Courrier, -
4:50 - 4:51but instead at La Suisse, yes.
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4:51 - 4:55(TF) Here, I read one of your articles
published today on Le Courrier's website. -
4:56 - 4:58(MD) Yes, that's when I was unemployed, I -
-
4:58 - 5:01because I was unemployed
and so once, indeed, -
5:01 - 5:02I wrote a freelance article
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5:02 - 5:05that, among others, Le Courrier,
by syndication, picked up. -
5:05 - 5:07And also La Liberté, I think.
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5:07 - 5:09(TF) This is what -
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5:09 - 5:10(MD) This doesn't lack piquancy
-
5:10 - 5:13because I am not seen as
a left-wing journalist, -
5:13 - 5:16I am rather of, let us say,
the opposite camp. -
5:16 - 5:19(TF) You participated in the launch
of Matin Bleu, -
5:19 - 5:22and also jumped on the bandwagon
of new technologies, since -
5:22 - 5:24you embarked on a training course,
-
5:24 - 5:27You have been head of the Opinions and
debates section at Le Temps: -
5:27 - 5:31responsibilities so diverse, we see,
editorial responsibilities, -
5:31 - 5:33management responsibilities, still today,
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5:33 - 5:37President of the Society of Editors
and Ringier / Axel Springer staff. -
5:37 - 5:40In your statement, you don't pull any punches,
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5:40 - 5:42you talk about carnage.
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5:42 - 5:43(MD) Yes, it's carnage,
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5:43 - 5:45because people need to know
about the carnage at Le Temps. -
5:45 - 5:48First, there's the final nail
in the coffin of L'Hebdo, -
5:48 - 5:54whose editorial team was,
I was going to say, virtually eradicated -
5:54 - 5:58with the exception of its editor in chief
and some others -
5:58 - 6:02who were already working as part of
the editorial pool at Le Temps. -
6:03 - 6:08But what was very well communicated
from his point of view, of course, -
6:08 - 6:12the editor on January 23,
is that 37 posts disappeared, -
6:12 - 6:14due to L'Hebdo's ceasing publication.
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6:14 - 6:16This is pure nonsense, of course.
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6:16 - 6:2237 posts are disappearing, but we did
not produce L'Hebdo with 37 people. -
6:22 - 6:24We produced L'Hebdo
with far fewer people. -
6:24 - 6:26Where are the others?
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6:26 - 6:28Well the others, they are
editorial staff at Le Temps, -
6:28 - 6:32an editorial staff that's now slashed by a quarter.
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6:33 - 6:38You should know that this is the sixth
restructuring since Le Temps was founded, -
6:38 - 6:42that the previous round took place in 2015 and affected 15 people,
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6:42 - 6:45that the round before that took place in 2012
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6:45 - 6:47and affected a dozen people.
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- Title:
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