Former columnist Louise Cousineau, who left her mark on the Quebec cultural scene for decades with her sharp critiques of the Quebec television world, died Monday.
According to the daily The Press, where she worked for several decades, the former columnist died late Monday. She suffered from health problems.
Throughout her long career, the journalist also wrote for The small newspaper, The homeland as well as the magazine TV Hebdo, to which she contributed briefly in 2010, before retiring. The former columnist also exercised her profession by taking part in various radio shows broadcast on CKAC and 98.5 FM, using her unique outspokenness.
This is how many today associate Louise Cousineau with the woman who undoubtedly invented television criticism as we know it today. Her sharp criticisms have led her over the years to become the dread of the cultural community. However, she did not have fun painting a negative portrait of the works appearing on the small screen. In interview with Marc Labrèche on the show A lighthouse in the nighton June 5, 2020, she instead explained that she wanted above all to be fair in her criticism, she who practiced her profession for so many years because of her love of television.
“I tried to be fair in my criticism […] I would much rather love that than hate that,” she then declared to Marc Labrèche, who himself had also agreed that he had never been criticized by Ms. Cousineau.
“I know she was scratchy sometimes; she was passionate. We awaited her criticism with concern,” wrote screenwriter Sylvie Payette on Monday on the social network “Thank you Louise. »
I was lucky that she liked my work. I know she was scratchy sometimes, she was passionate. We awaited his criticisms with concern. 🙂 Thanks Louise. Former TV columnist at La Presse | Louise Cousineau passes away https://t.co/QyZ142YlsJ via @lp_lapresse
— Sylvie Payette (@Payettesylvie) February 20, 2024
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