Bernard Langlois

Bernard Langlois, born August 17, 1945, is a French alter-globalization journalist. He is notably the founder of the weekly Politis. A specialist in North/South relations, Bernard Langlois is a founding member of the ATTAC association. Bernard Langlois began his career at the Dauphiné Libéré in July 1963, a few months before entering a journalism school. He was first, in turn: reporter at La Vie catholique illustrée (from 1966 to 1968), reporter/radio presenter at Europe 1 (from 1968 to 1970), presenter of the JT Télé-nuit at ORTF (1st channel) (from 1971 to 1972), editor-in-chief of Tribune socialiste (weekly of the PSU) (from 1972 to 1974), independent journalist (from 1975 to 1977) then editorialist at Matin de Paris (from 1977 to 1981). In 1981, he became presenter of the Antenne-2-midi (A2) news, until September 14, 1982. He was dismissed for having weighed up two deaths learned of on the same day, those of Bachir Gemayel and Grace of Monaco, during the editorial that, at the time, opened the Antenne 2 midday news. It was for having minimized1 the death of Grace of Monaco ("It will not change anything in the destiny of humanity. Just an ordinary mourning, the ordinary sorrow of a famous family that was familiar to us by the grace of the gazettes") after having announced the assassination, which occurred on the same day, of President Bachir Gemayel, in the middle of the Lebanese war, that Bernard Langlois was dismissed. He was not so much mocking the death of the Princ…