LCI sidelines Isabelle Saporta after clash with Prisca Thevenot
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L’essentiel
French MP Prisca Thevenot and commentator Isabelle Saporta clashed live on LCI on Monday during a debate about violence in France. The channel has sidelined the commentator after the exchange, L’essentiel reports.
French channel LCI has sidelined Isabelle Saporta, a political commentator for TF1 and LCI, for a week after her on-air clash on Monday 19 October with Prisca Thevenot, an MP from the governing party Ensemble pour la République. Thierry Thuillier, head of news at the TF1 group, referred the matter to the channel’s ethics committee, the Swiss daily L’essentiel reports.
The exchange took place on Éric Brunet’s programme as the two guests debated violence in France. Saporta accused the governing majority of “lecturing people” and told Thevenot: “You’ve been running the country into the ground for ten years.” The MP replied, among other things, that the journalist’s comments offered no solutions to people worried about the evening.
According to Le Parisien, Thevenot asked Saporta for an apology after the programme. LCI’s decision to sideline her does not prevent the commentator from keeping her daily slot on “Bonjour”, TF1’s morning programme presented by Bruce Toussaint.
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