In May 2021, she admitted to having “of character” and be “obstinate like any good journalist” without describing themselves as “unmanageable“. A few months later, Élise Lucet strikes a blow and targets… her colleagues. She, who is already feared by many political figures, tackles journalists who are not really journalists.
“I don’t have time and it’s pissing me off!“
Interviewed by Pascal Clark on France 5, in the program Saw againÉlise Lucet revealed: “I will be completely honest. I hardly ever watch the news TV continuously. None. Really. Not even franceinfo“. This disenchantment with the format, the public service star explains it as follows: “I don’t have time and it’s pissing me off! There is a side where you are kept like that, in suspense. For me, a journalist is not someone who has a microphone, like that, and who speaks in front of a camera“.
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Because more broadly, the one behind the show Cash Investigation believes that the work there is not done correctly. She who was nevertheless host of the JT of France 3 between 1990 and 2005, then that of that of France 2 until 2016, changed his way of practicing his profession, a few years ago already. And she makes no concessions to her colleagues…
Tired of “news commentators”
Élise Lucet lectures thus: a journalist “he is someone who goes into the field, who will meet people, who will take risks when he goes to Ukraine. He’s going to take risks because he’s doing a bit of a tough investigation.“. And to tackle in particular the editorialists, whom she nicknames “news commentators”. She who does not find them of interest assures: “I want to see real people. I don’t want to see journalists talking about real people. I want to hear from people in the field, people who do lots of different jobs“.
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