Elise Lucet does not handle the language of wood, but its frankness struck a good number of its colleagues after its passage in the emission Saw again on France 5 Sunday June 5, 2022. The famous journalist strongly criticized continuous news channels like BFMTV. The channel, in shock at the death of one of its own in Ukraine, Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, did not digest the criticisms of the presenter of Cash Investigation.
Facing Pascale Clark in Saw again, Elise Lucet explained that she was always addicted to information, but later she also said all the bad things she thought of CNews: “I will be completely honest. I hardly ever watch the news TV continuously. None. Really. Not even franceinfo. (…) I don’t have time and it’s getting drunk! 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.” by adding : “A journalist is someone who goes out into the field, who meets people, who takes risks, as we said in Ukraine, who takes risks because he investigates a little strong”. “I’m not interested in news commentators. I want to see real people. I don’t want to see journalists talking about real people. I want to hear people from field, people who do lots of different jobs”, chained Elise Lucet. And to conclude: “I don’t want it to be journalists, who, in front of a camera, tell people’s lives as if they were sociologists watching with a magnifying glass the people who are agitated downstairs”
Words that quickly reached the ears of Marc-Olivier Fogiel, general manager of BFMTV, very shocked by the tragedy. Reacting to the article that Puremedias.com wrote on the fact that Elise Lucet criticizes the news channels continuously, he paraphrased what the journalist said during the program on the work of a journalist to ask respect the memory of Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, who worked for BFMTV and was in the field: “‘A journalist is someone who goes into the field, who meets people, who takes risks when he goes to Ukraine. Like Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff of BFMTV, who paid with his life a week ago. Let’s respect his memory.“