French President Macron is guest on a podcast usually reserved for entrepreneurs
gdiy.frThe well-known podcast GDIY (Do It Yourself Generation in English) hosted French President Emmanuel Macron and has just published the episode. What's really crazy is that this podcast usually hosts European entrepreneurial figures. In the midst of a political crisis, and having just dissolved the French National Assembly, President Macron chose GDIY to talk...
On the other hand, what I find interesting is not at all the political substance of what Macron says, but rather the fact that he agreed to take part in a format that usually welcomes very different people.
This is potentially a clever way of getting round the fact that his speaking time is counted as part of his party's campaign for the legislative elections*. The French media must maintain a semblance of pluralism of opinion and each candidate's speaking time is counted. The speaking time of the President when he is not speaking directly to the French people as part of his duties is counted as that of his party.
Podcasts are not subject to this regulation and ARCOM does not measure the audience for podcasts.