He doesn’t want to “let it go” anymore. Jean-Baptiste Marteau lodged a complaint with the police, after having received, at the headquarters of France Télévisions, a threatening letter concerning his daughter. “We know where she goes to school” read the anonymous missive. The journalist says he is unfortunately used to receiving insulting messages since he publicly revealed his homosexuality. But when it concerns his family, he believes that any threat will henceforth have a judicial follow-up.
At the zinc of the “Comptoir de l’info”, Jean-Baptiste Marteau also remembers an incident of which he had been the victim during a demonstration in 2010 which he covered as a reporter. With the JRI (journalist reporter of images) who accompanied him, they had been pushed into the Seine by demonstrators. The escort service must have helped them out of the water. The journalist admits that he did not understand this hatred against him, when he had come to give voice to those who came to express their dissatisfaction. Hostility against journalistsoften accompanied by violence, has continued to grow since the episode of the yellow vests.
“At the info counter” is the first native (audio) podcast of France Télévisions. In the form of a journalistic interview, an actor who produces public service television information — a major reporter, a cameraman, a presenter — comes to give himself up, tell, reveal the way he works. In a sound atmosphere of a coffee counter, he confides his doubts, his joys, but also his fears when he is on the ground or in the studio. Since May 2021, the podcast “At the info counter” has also received journalists from Radio France (France Inter, France Info, France Culture) at its microphone.
The series is produced by François Beaudonnet, editor-in-chief Europe, columnist for franceinfo (channel 27), senior reporter for France 2 and columnist for the program “Nous, les Européens” on France 3. Former correspondent in Rome and Brussels, he began on the radio where he presented the 1 p.m. news on France Inter.
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This episode was directed by Marion Gualandi