The scavenger battle continues. After being scarred last week on the show Do not touch My TV, host Cyril Hanouna and LFI deputy Louis Boyard continued their hostilities from a distance, each announcing legal proceedings. Let us recall that the member has in turn been called “shit”“fool”“loser”“jester” and on we go…. He had dared to criticize the owner of the chain, C8, Vincent Bolloré. A boldness which therefore aroused the hysteria of its employee animator, Cyril Hanouna. A distressing episode which is also heavy with meaning, revealing the degradation of public debate, whether political or media, the two dimensions being closely linked.
>> Altercation between Louis Boyard and Cyril Hanouna: the host of “Touche pas à mon poste” announces in turn that he will “sue” the LFI deputy
But whose fault is it? First to Cyril Hanouna and especially to the chain. In any company, an employee who insults someone so violently, and publicly, whether he is a deputy or not, would be sanctioned by his employer. This is not the case at C8. It must be said that from skids to provocations, this show, TPMP, has become a trademark. It’s a buzz machine, a clash machine, everything there is laughter and controversy. It is an illustration of the wave that is in the process of submerging politics, in France and elsewhere, the twitterization of public debate. Trump – Hanouna, same fight! Make way for indignation, emotion, violence! And above all, no pity for reflection, nuance, or peaceful exchange…
There is also the question of the politicians who participate in it and are therefore also guilty. Hanouna is also the culmination of a long drift, that of the pipolisation of politics. It began a long time ago, in a pleasant and innocuous turn, with Giscard’s accordion; she then poured into exhibitionism with all these elected officials staging their private lives, often falsified, on glossy paper. And so it ends with a torrent of insults poured out on a deputy.
Politicians, all labels combined, who rush to the Hanouna plateau believe they are running after the voter. In fact, with each appearance, they dig their own grave a little deeper. By dint of stripping to flirt with the voter, their solicitation comes back to them like a boomerang. Because on social networks as for certain media, politics is nothing more than a game of massacres. As such, we are also all guilty: if these programs exist, it is good that there is an audience. The voters have only the elected officials whom they choose; and viewers ultimately only get the hosts they deserve…