Same dead since March 2, 2022, Jean-Pierre Pernaut continues to be talked about. Recently, it is the presenter of the TF1 JTT JT1 Jacques Legros who, in a book entitled behind the screen: 40 years in the heart of the media (editions of the Rocher, 216 pages, 17.90 euros), scratched his legendary colleague, describes As a character, unable to hand over. These regulations not very classy towards a deceased who cannot defend himself testifies, in hollow, of the extreme influence that “JPP” continues to exert on the television matrix, and beyond.
On the site of TF1, the page” at the heart of the regions “, like a small mausoleum in pictures, maintains the provincial-centric flame that this graduate of the Lille Higher School of Journalism made shine during thirty-three years At the head of the 1 pm news, with a particular tenderness for the Santons of Provence. On their own, the titles of the reports are enough to summon the tutelary figure of the one who was a time the “favorite TV personality of the French”: “ in a hot air balloon above the lavendes of Valensole ” , “ Cornichons: It’s the moment of harvest “, “ A region, an instrument: the Auvergne accordion “, ” white areas: even the fixed phone does not work in these Ardéchois “, etc.
Another materialization of this post-mortem aura: on September 24, the full wind hall of the Abbeville market was baptized “Halle Jean-Pierre-Pernaut”, in tribute to the old man-tronc, native of the Sum. For a long time, in the authorized circles, it was nevertheless good to make fun of this type in the name of Anisette, to see in its exaltation of the terroir, small trade and traditions nothing more than cathodic louvan. In 2006, Isabelle Roberts and Raphaël Garrigos, then journalists in Libé, castigated in the right soup: how the 1 p.m. of TF1 contaminated the info (the arenas) this “show journalism”, its “litany of the small dying trades” .
It is certain that the star presenter has never been the voice of the railway workers’ strike or the Berlin electro. But, by taking an interest in purchasing power problems, the skills that are lost, the desertification of the countryside, he put his finger, with an obstinate vista, on one of the dead angles of modernity: This confusion between progressivism (social, human) and the ideology of progress (forced march, laminating everything in its path). In his own way, Jean-Pierre Pernaut was avant-garde, foreshadowing this moment when the air of time would turn around like a Breton cake, anticipating the wave of bac +5 dreams of craft bakers and Parisians migrating to medium-sized cities, announcing A radical change in software where conservation (places, gestures, memories) would finally be looked at as a conservatism.
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