Valeurs actuelles explained

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Category:Newsmagazine
Frequency:Weekly
Circulation: (2020) [1]
Founder:Raymond Bourgine
Editor:Geoffroy Lejeune
Company:Valmonde
Country:France
Based:Paris
Language:French
Issn:0049-5794

Valeurs actuelles (in French pronounced as /va.lœʁ.(z)ak.tɥɛl/;) is a French weekly news magazine published in Paris. It was initially considered to be right-wing but is today associated with the far right.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It was founded by Raymond Bourgine in 1966.

History

Valeurs actuelles was founded in 1966[8] by Raymond Bourgine as an offspring of the weekly Finances, a stock market information review. The magazine gradually became an opinion and generalist publication with a liberal-conservative tendency. In 1971 Valeurs actuelles was relaunched.[9]

Formerly owned by Socpresse the magazine has been owned by Valmonde,[10] a subsidiary of Sud Communication.[11] The company is owned by Pierre Fabre,[11] who founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre.[12]

The main articles of the magazine are the editorial, written by François d'Orcival; the lettre de M. de Rastignac ("Rastignac's letter"), a humour piece about French politics that comments on present politicians by calling them by names of supporting characters from Balzac's works.

From 1966 to his death in 1972, the movie section was written by the antisemitic and collaborationist writer Lucien Rebatet, under the pseudonym of François Vinneuil.[13]

In 2014, Valeurs actuelles published a false survey favorable to Nicolas Sarkozy.[14] Valeurs actuelles also leaked informations about journalists from the newspaper Le Monde who were investigating on Nicolas Sarkozy, which triggers the accusation of breach of the secrecy of the sources of a dozen French newspapers.[15]

On March 5, 2015, Yves de Kerdrel, publishing director of Valeurs Actuelles, was sentenced by the 17th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court for incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against Roma and defamation for a file devoted to Roma ; a decision confirmed on appeal on December 9, 2015.[16]

In 2019, President Emmanuel Macron gave the magazine an interview and talked critically about Islam, the veil and immigration with the publication. This created much fury from left-wing politicians.[17] [18]

Macron defended his interview by saying he wanted to reach out to other audiences as well. He called Valeurs actuelles "a very good magazine, you have to read it to know what the right thinks".[19]

In August 2020, Valeurs actuelles published an illustration of the black Member of Parliament Danièle Obono as a slave in chains as part of a political fiction series on public figures transposed in different historical eras, prompting an outcry from politicians of numerous parties. Deputy editor Tugdual Denis apologised for the image but denied accusations of racism.[20] Valeurs actuelles must be judged for a racist insult in 2021.[21] The magazine was found guilty of making racist comments under French hate speech rules against Danièle Obono, 41, the Member of Parliament for Paris's 17th constituency the far-left France Unbowed party.[22]

In 2021, a few months after the murder of Samuel Paty, Valeurs actuelles publishes a fake news about a professor who would be threatened with death by his students because of the study of the Holocaust.[23]

In 2021, on Algiers putsch birthday,[24] the magazine published an open letter by retired military personnel, who warned the country was heading for "civil war" due to Islamist religious extremism, and hinted at the possibility of a military coup.[25] [26] [27] [28] They are close to the extreme right and conspiratorial circles of the great replacement and the National Rally.[29] For the political scientist specializing in the far right Jean-Yves Camus, an intervention by the army in favor of the far right remains a fantasy fueled by a very small and retired army movement, and not a real threat.

Circulation

Valeurs actuelles is mostly distributed to subscribers. Its circulation in 1981 was 113,000 copies.[30] The estimated circulation of the magazine was 90,000 copies in 1988.[31] The magazine sold 116,126 copies in France in 2015,[32] and in 2020.

Contributors

Major contributors to the magazine include the following:[33]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.acpm.fr/Support/valeurs-actuelles ACPM Diffusion France payée moyenne, 2020.
  2. Web site: Intrusion au siège de "Valeurs actuelles" après la représentation de Danièle Obono en esclave. 2021-08-25. LEFIGARO. 29 August 2020. fr.
  3. Web site: Obono : Valeurs Actuelles fictionne son racisme sans l'assumer - Par Loris Guémart Arrêt sur images. 2021-08-25. www.arretsurimages.net.
  4. Web site: 2013-12-04. Valeurs Actuelles, l'attrape-droites. 2021-08-25. LExpress.fr. fr.
  5. News: Refuser la banalisation du racisme . Le Monde.fr . 1 Sep 2020 . fr.
  6. Book: Alistair Cole. Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France. 26 March 2019. Manchester University Press. 978-1-5261-4050-0. 39.
  7. Web site: Valeurs Actuelles (Groupe Valmonde). 118 128. 15 November 2016. fr.
  8. Book: Western Europe 2003. 26 November 2015. 30 November 2002. Psychology Press. 978-1-85743-152-0. 231.
  9. Book: Serge Berstein. Jean-Pierre Rioux. The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974. 21 April 2015. 13 March 2000. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-58061-8. 199.
  10. News: Le groupe Valmonde relance le magazine Le Spectacle du Monde . 17 April 2020. Offre Media. 30 January 2019. fr.
  11. Web site: 16 July 2008 . France -- Media Guide 2008 . 2 March 2015 . Open Source Society.
  12. Xavier Ternisien, Une filière "Valeurs actuelles" à la tête du "Figaro", Le Monde, 19 July 2012
  13. Pascal Ifri, Les Deux Étendards de Lucien Rebatet: dossier d'un chef-d'œuvre maudit, p. 27, Éditions l'Âge d'Homme, 2001
  14. Web site: 2014-09-08. Valeurs Actuelles / L'Opinion : le sondage Sarkozy était bidon - Par La rédaction Arrêt sur images. 2021-08-24. www.arretsurimages.net.
  15. Web site: 2014-10-17. Les rédactions de 14 médias dénoncent les méthodes de "Valeurs actuelles". 2021-08-24. Le Point. fr.
  16. Web site: «Valeurs actuelles» condamné pour provocation à la haine envers les Roms . 2023-08-12 . Libération . fr.
  17. News: Macron dans "Valeurs actuelles": la gauche s'étouffe . 16 June 2022. Valeurs actuelles. 30 October 2019.
  18. News: Fury over Macron's far-right magazine interview . 17 April 2020. France 24. 31 October 2019.
  19. News: Ce qu'Emmanuel Macron dit dans "Valeurs Actuelles". 16 June 2022. Huffington Post. 30 October 2019.
  20. Web site: Associated Press. 2020-08-29. French magazine says sorry for portraying black MP as a slave. 2020-08-29. The Guardian. en.
  21. News: 2021-06-24. Accusée de " racisme ", la " politique-fiction " de " Valeurs actuelles " sur Danièle Obono en procès à Paris. fr. Le Monde.fr. 2021-08-25.
  22. Web site: 2021-09-30. French Magazine Found Guilty of Hate Speech Against Black Lawmaker - September 30, 2021. 2021-09-30. The Daily News Brief Real News without the Spin. en-US.
  23. Web site: 2021-03-31. Un faux prof piège " Valeurs Actuelles " avec un témoignage sur le séparatisme pour dénoncer les fake news. 2021-08-24. L'Obs. fr.
  24. Web site: 2021-04-27. Quels liens existe-t-il entre l'armée et l'extrême droite ?. 2021-08-24. www.20minutes.fr. fr.
  25. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/26/retired-generals-warning-impending-civil-war-france-sparks-political/ "Retired generals' warning of impending "civil war" in France sparks political storm"
  26. https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210428-ex-generals-spark-backlash-as-they-warn-of-civil-war-in-france "Ex-generals face sanctions after they warn of 'civil war' in France"
  27. https://www.dw.com/en/french-soldiers-who-warned-of-civil-war-to-face-sanctions/a-57368532 "French soldiers who warned of 'civil war' to face sanctions"
  28. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/29/french-soldiers-to-face-military-court-over-letter-warning-of-civil-war "French soldiers to face military court over letter warning of ‘civil war’"
  29. Web site: 2021-04-26. Tribune de militaires dans "Valeurs Actuelles" : des généraux à la retraite proches de l'extrême-droite et de milieux conspirationnistes. 2021-08-24. Franceinfo. fr-FR.
  30. Book: Raymond Kuhn. The Media in France. 15 November 2014. 7 April 2006. Routledge. 978-1-134-98053-6. 69.
  31. Book: Peter Humphreys. Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe. 15 November 2014. 15 May 1996. Manchester University Press. 978-0-7190-3197-7. 88.
  32. Web site: Accueil > Chiffres > Valeurs actuelles. ACPM. 25 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160315103708/http://www.acpm.fr/Support/valeurs-actuelles. 15 March 2016.
  33. http://www.valeursactuelles.com/public/valeurs-actuelles/html/fr/transversal/redaction.php Présentation de la rédaction
  34. http://www.michelgurfinkiel.com/pages/profile-english.html Michel Gurfinkiel biography
  35. https://www.c-span.org/video/?48223-1/international-affairs "International Affairs".

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