professional obituary of Martinican-born French political pundit
Audrey Pulvar, 40.
Pulvar had been fired by her various employers for the professional
ethical lapse of being the girlfriend of French Minister of Productive
Recovery (Industry) Arnaud Montebourg.
(Page Address: alexengwete.blogspot.com/2012/06/female-biopolitical-nonautonomy-french.html?m=1)
Well, she was tapped last Friday, July 13, as CEO in charge of the
editorial board of the high-brow weekly cultural magazine Les
Inrockuptibles (also called Les Inrocks), which is undergoing a change
to become a general information weekly.
The appointment of Pulvar still brought snark from some quarters.
The weekly cultural magazine Télérama thinks that "the debate around
relationships betweeen politicians and journalists has never ceased to
be posed in France. Les Inrocks has settled the argument. In the most
radical fashion. And it hurts the profession."
The weekly news magazine Le Point decried the appointment as an
illustration of the Society of the Spectacle, calling to mind the
famous book by Guy Debord.
In her response to those critics, Pulvar told AFP that Les Inrocks
will be "neither an annex, nor a listening post, nor an organ of the
socialist party, of the government or of the head of state."
Her response has done little to allay those criticisms.
Critics were quick to point out that she's replacing David Kessler,
who's just been appointed President François Hollande's media and
cultural advisor.
More importantly, critics are troubled by the fact that the owner of
Les Inrockuptibles, Matthieu Pigasse, a banker, is close to the
socialist administration.
Uncannily, Pulvar was featured on the cover of one issue of March 2012
of Les Inrocks (photo above).
Rose being the symbol of the Socialist Party, that was Pulvar's way to
show the middle finger to her critics.
Pulvar has since turned that cover into her avatar on Twitter.
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PHOTO CREDITS: rfi.fr
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