Let the weekly newspapers of France be looked in to.
Le Canard enchaine
Le Canard enchaine can be referred to as one of the satirical newspapers published once in a week in France. It was founded in the year 1915. The features include investigative journalism, leaks from the sources within government of France, political world, business world, along with humorous cartoons, and various jokes. The circulation has reached 446000. It holds the credit of being one amongst the oldest and most respected French newspapers, in spite of humoristic tone of it.
The Canard is known to have a fixed 8-page layout. The pages 1 to 4 and eight are nearly editorials and news. The pages 5 to 7 have been dedicated to the social issues like environment, satire, general humor, and profiles, film criticism, opera, theater, literature, and ‘Beauf’ comic strip of Cabu. A section known as ‘Album de la Comtesse’ has been dedicated to the phenomenon called ‘spoonerisms’.
The credit of its invention goes to Maurice Marechal, along with his wife (Jeanne Marechal). H.P. Gassier was also one of the founders. Its title got changed to Le Canard Dechaine, i.e. duck without the chains one after the First World War, in order to mark the celebration of end of censorship of military on press. The title ‘Le Canard Enchaine’ was resumed in the year 1920.
This paper continued with the publication and growth in terms of influence and popularity till it got the orders of closing down at the time of ‘German Occupation of France’ in the year 1940. After getting liberated, the publication was resumed. The 8-page format was regained in 60s.
Earlier, contributors of The Canard were the members of Socialist and Communist parties. It, however shed this alignment in 1920s. The current owners haven’t been tied to economic or political group of any kind, in spite of having the tendency of having the left-wing ‘Political Bias’. The Canard, at present, defends its freedom against alignment of any sort, and has obtained reputation for having published incriminating stories, along with having criticized any of the political parties, that too, without reference. Anti-clerisy is its motto.
Le Point
Le Point can be referred to as one of the weekly news magazine of France. The year 1972 marked its invention. Le Point was the brainchild of a constellation of some journalists. They had left L’Express’s editorial team an year before. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, a depute of Parti Radical was the owner of L’Express then.
This editorial team then found monetary backing with Hachette group. Claude Imbert was its director at that time. The other journalists who made up this team included Georges Suffert, Robert Franc, Pierre Billard, Henri Trinchet, and Jacques Duquesne. The management was inclusive of Philippe Ramond, and Olivier Chevrillon.
This weekly magazine had gone with the recruitment of journalists from Parisian Press. Moreover, it relied on ability of it of redefining the genre. The magazine, after a tough start in the year 1972, challenged L’Express. Ownership has been changed so many times.
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