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Right on TV: the great desert

As you found out yesterday, the show The Francs-Tireurs, which I had the pleasure of co-hosting for 23 years on Télé-Québec with Benoit Dutrizac, Patrick Lagacé and Laurent Saulnier, will disappear from the airwaves in December.

I will not tear my shirt in the public square: it is the prerogative of any broadcaster to choose which shows come back and which don’t.

And then, how many shows lasted 23 years on the air?

Mass and Green week

THOUSAND SHADES OF LEFT

When Francs started, Laurent, Benoit and I said to each other: “It’s cool, it will last two months, then the owners of Télé-Québec will realize their mistake, they will pull the plug and we will move on. . But at least we will have had fun for a few weeks … “

Now, a miracle: the show will have lasted almost a quarter of a century!

Many thanks to Télé-Québec who supported us (in both senses of the word, that is to say “supported” and “tolerated”) for so many years.

And many thanks to Mario Clément, director of programming for Télé-Québec when we started out, who had the crazy idea of ​​putting us on the air.

Hoping that this decision did not hurt his career too much!

However, these are not Francs that I want to talk about today, but the presence of a right-wing speech on TV.

It’s quite simple, apart from Mario Dumont at LCN, who takes a frankly conservative look at the news of the day, this speech is totally absent from the airwaves.

He does not exist.

It is the left, the extreme left, the center left, the identity left, the working-class left, the dark left, the pale left, etc.

At Radio-Canada, a balanced debate is an exchange between a person on the far left, a person on the left and a person on the center left.

That’s diversity for them.

FRANKLY RIGHT

For Benoit and I, it was clear in our head: The Francs-Tireurs was a show that bore – proudly – right.

We wanted to hear another story on TV, criticize the excesses of multiculturalism, the Charter of Rights, freedom of religion, obsession with identity and political correctness.

And that’s what we did. With happiness.

We didn’t say we had the truth! We just wanted to stir up the cage of received ideas.

However, today, it is as if the speech of the right (or conservative, call it what you want) does not exist.

We sometimes hear it on the radio. It is sometimes read in the newspapers (especially the one you are reading now). But on TV? It is the great desert.

Yes, there are right-wing commentators (at LCN, especially). But broadcasts frankly right?

As I said, there is only one: Mario’s.

That’s it, that’s all.

And one wonders why so many people no longer recognize themselves in traditional media. Why they turn to alternative media, which take advantage of their thirst to hear a different speech to make them swallow any salad.

Why this refusal to accept a speech which is completely legitimate?

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