Question 29443 — press and books

Summary

Ms. Sira Sylla alerts the Minister of the Economy and Finance about the liquidation of Paris-Normandie, according to the Norman regional daily press. The newspaper has been plagued by financial difficulties for several years but the covid-19 crisis has suddenly accentuated the problem. The Rouen commercial court, which ordered the judicial liquidation with a three-month extension of the activity, gave until May 22, 2020 to the newspaper to find a buyer. Otherwise, everyday life could simply disappear. Nearly 240 employees would see their future called into question. Created in 1947, Paris-Normandie was, from its birth, part of the philosophy of the press ordinances of August 22 and 26, 1944 taken by the provisional government of the French Republic. These orders put an end to the censorship of the regime of Vichy and defined moral, economic and financial criteria to ensure independence for the press from the powers of money, so that the press becomes an object of information and culture. We must never forget that the Société Normande de Presse, the first manager of Paris-Normandy, was made up of 36 representatives from the Resistance movements. Paris-Normandy is thus an integral part of the heritage cultural and democratic. If Paris-Normandie were to disappear, only La Presse de la Manche would remain to represent the regional daily press in Normandy. Are we going to leave almost three million Norman citizens without daily local media? This would be a serious attack on the diversity and pluralism of citizens' sources of information and, even more, a renunciation of the ideals of Liberation of 1944. Paris-Normandy, there are two companies (Snic and RNP, advertising agency) and nearly 240 employees who risk finding themselves unemployed. The blow will be severe for these employees and their families. It will also not spare the Norman economic fabric in that many jobs directly linked to the newspaper's activity will be directly threatened. Paris-Normandy had demonstrated in recent years, in a context unprecedented upheaval of the press, its capacity for innovation. There remains a lot to do but, as always, the MP is convinced that it will be able to meet all the challenges of tomorrow while retaining the spirit which has allowed it to survive the decades since its foundation, in the aftermath of the Second World War. But, in this context of health crisis, its sales fell by 20% from the start of confinement and its advertising revenues by 90% and it will undoubtedly be deprived of the majority of its advertising revenues for a while longer and hampered in its distribution. Moreover, the entire press sector is not in the best shape since the start of confinement. She asks him if he plans to put in place an exceptional aid system to safeguard the jobs of the two companies (SNIC and RNP) and to allow Paris-Normandy to overcome covid-19.

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