Daniel Mermet

Daniel Mermet (born with the Pavillons-sous-Bois the December 16th 1942) is a Journaliste, writer and producer of radio French.

Activities

Daniel Mermet is stimulating and associate producer of the radio program Là-bas if I am there diffused Monday to Friday of 15:00 to 16:00 on France Inter. This emission obtained the price Ondas 1992, Scam 1993 and of the French Council of the audio-visual 1998. It occupies an important place in the medium Altermondialiste French in particular for its militant treatment of the socio-economic subjects which it tackles in the form of reports or of discussions with committed intellectuals. It however gives up regularly the militant topics to propose varied entertainments, more embarrassing with most poetic. At all events, the emission always opens on the diffusion of a selection of telephone messages of its listeners, called the “responder”.

At the beginning of summer 2006, the new chairman of France Inter, Frederic Schlesinger chose to move the emission of 17:00 to 15:00 with the re-entry of September, which was very badly accepted because this schedule would deprive the emission of an important part of its audience (approximately 50% according to the figures most frequently provided). The reason called upon by this president was the creation of a large newspaper beginning with 18:00 and which would overlap the emission of Daniel Mermet. In spite of a petition signed by more than 200000 listeners the change of schedules will be maintained by the direction of France Inter.

Daniel Mermet is also the author of Ugly: Ohmondieumondieumondieu! , comic account diffused on France Inter, then published with the Threshold in the Eighties.

It also signed the program “In the town of Paramaribo, there is a street which goes up and which never goes down” diffused within the ear in corner from 1977 to 1979.

One owes him also soft casting (erotic accounts) and Welcome on board Titanic (emission comic: admission free if one comes with palms or a drainer to vegetables on the head).

Conflicts

The team of Là-bas if I am there is not free from conflicts, attest some the charges (paid by Acrimed) carried against its organizer and producing Daniel Mermet by Joelle Levert and the trade unions of France-Inter in November - December 2003 then by Thierry Scharf and Claire Hauter accompanied by very the trade unions in September 2004.

According to Daniel Mermet in his last answer of September 29th, 2004, it is not a question of a conflict opposing a large unpleasant chief to innocent precarized victims, but quite simply of an insufficient budget. The cause of this crisis is there, and nowhere elsewhere.

The site Acrimed.org covered these conflicts and in December 2003 in these terms was defended some: We had written: “The particular place occupied in the media landscape by the emission “Over there if I” am diffused there on France Inter does not justify that one overlooks the charges carried against his organizer and producer, even if, in this case, the refusal to keep silent itself does not go without a great feeling of sadness. ” We must now add: the friendship that we carry to Joelle Levert was worth although one makes public the answer of Daniel Mermet, in pledge of the friendship that we also carry to him, even if, in this case, the refusal to conceal to us does not go without a waste great feeling. .

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