RMC was pinned by the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) for having lacked “rigor”, “balance” and “mastery of its antenna” during a broadcast at the end of August with the professor Christian Perronne , according to a decision published on Wednesday at Official Journal . The media control authority has put the RMC group on formal notice to respect its information processing obligations. In question, the controversial remarks made by the infectious disease specialist on the Covid pandemic – 19, but also on Lyme disease and malaria, during the “Grand oral” of the program The big mouths of
” These statements were not sufficiently contradicted ”
Professor Perronne, dismissed in December from his duties as head of department by the Assistance publique-hospitals de Paris (AP-HP) and targeted by a complaint from the Order of Physicians, had in particular denied the resumption of the epidemic. However, the data published four days previously by Public Health France confirmed its resumption with an increase in new hospitalizations and admissions in intensive care, explains the CSA. “This guest was the only member of the medical profession present on stage” and “these statements are not have not been the subject of a sufficient contradiction ”, notes the CSA. “Consequently, the publisher cannot be regarded as having demonstrated honesty and rigor in the presentation and processing of information on the pandemic,” said the media gendarme.
“A fault in controlling the antenna”
The CSA lists other questionable comments on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment against Covid – 19 and on the supposed effectiveness of an antimalarial treatment based on artemisia herbal teas. Christian Perronne also supported a theory on Lyme disease, arguing that it was “created in the laboratory [par l’armée américaine] by a former Nazi ”.
Professor Perronne “expressed himself in an extremely peremptory manner on all of these questions, without the theses he puts forward (…) having been truly discussed. », Says the CSA. “Only his opinions were presented, resulting in a marked imbalance in the treatment of these subjects.” These words “did not arouse any sufficiently marked reaction from the people present on the set during the sequence, which characterizes a defect control of the antenna “, concludes the CSA. Former head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), Christian Perronne lost his post after other comments controversy over hydroxychloroquine and for claiming that Covid patients represented a financial boon for doctors. 000042866406