“We don't even hide it anymore…”: Faustine Bollaert's husband, Maxime Chattam, makes a sad observation

Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Maxime Chattam was invited to the set of TV Mag's Buzz TV. In the midst of promoting his new book, Prime Time, the husband of host Faustine Bollaert made a sad observation about television.

© BestImage Maxime Chattam has évoiced success from the CNews channel.

IN BRIEF

• Maxime Chattam, author of 'Prime Time', discusses the live hostage-taking of a TV presenter.
• He points out that news channels like CNews attract audiences with anxiety-provoking and politicized content.
• Discover why viewers are drawn to controversial content and how it influences the media.

An unpublished subject… In his latest book, Prime Time, Maxime Chattam recounts the live hostage-taking of the 8pm news anchor. Tuesday, December 3, 2024, on the set of TV Mag's Buzz TV, the writer explained : “Ça long time that I wanted to talk about the world of télé and that I forbade myself for family reasons, I did not want my wife who works in té to be judged through my own words”.

Interrogated on the success of CNews, which is currently the leading news channel in France, Faustine Bollaert's husband said: “It's special. &From the moment you have a channel that has had a guideline that is politicized, it's no longer all about doing the same thing. ÇThis is felt in CNews, we know it, we don't even hide it anymore…”.

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Maxime Chattam: “There are monstrous audience figures”

Éevoking the report à l’information, the writer explained: “Today, you make an ultra positive news channel that only talks about good news, the audience won't work. There have been attempts in the past, it doesn't work. On the other hand, as soon as something extremely anxiety-provoking happens, a drama, and we put live cameras on it there are monstrous audience ratings. We saw it during the terrorist attacks. The channels were beyond anything we could have imagined in terms of audience ratings”.

While this says a lot about our relationship with information, Maxime Chattam clarified: “To the need to know, especially to register for what is worst and especially when it is live. Otherwise, 'I'm going to miss out on something.' Social media has also changed a lot of things at that level.People criticize television a lot, but who makes television ? It's the people who watch it, it's not the channels that decide what they're going to put on”.

Maxime Chattam: “There are people who want to do that”

To conclude on the subject, the writer slipped: “CNews has a guiding principle that is political, I hear. Since it works, they may be right. It's just that there are people who want to do that”. On June 5, 2024, for Le Figaro, it was while evoking the subject of the channel that Serge Nedjar explained: “We decided to talk about everything with everyone. Including subjects considered sensitive, immigration, insecurity, the impoverishment of our fellow citizens… less covered on other channels. In our country, journalists have a simple mission: to speak to people and not to other journalists”.

On December 19, 2023, for the Huffington Post, it was then that CNews surpassed BFMTV in terms of audiences that sociologist Isabelle Veyrat-Masson had analyzed: “CNews' policy is to be provocative, violently debated and take very strong positions. Now, we know that algorithms on social networks encourage controversy, scandal and aggression. Excesses have always generated audiences”.