French Media Watchdog Forces CNews to Drop Controversial Pundit Zemmour

Eric Zemmour will no longer be able to "continue the show" of which he was a columnist on CNews, the continuous news channel announces in a press release. This announcement follows the decision of the CSA which requires audiovisual media to deduct the interventions of the editorialist on the national political debate. This decision came into effect on September 9.

"Although Eric Zemmour has not declared himself a candidate for the presidential election which will take place in 7 months, the CSA" forces CNews to make this decision, regrets the channel. "I am very sad about it. [...] I think the CSA did it on purpose, did it deliberately. And after careful consideration [...] we understood that it was the only reasonable solution. When you can’t resist, you have to break and resist elsewhere," reacted the 63-year-old journalist.