![]() ![]() I launched another journal called Encore, with some friends who are also your friends, a “hipper” journal. OLIVIER ZAHM - How did it feel to have L’Autre Journal end so violently? MICHEL BUTEL - Everyone thought that the journal was so tight with the Left, which was in power then, but in reality, I disagreed with them pretty much down the line. OLIVIER ZAHM - You were not close to the Socialist French President François Mitterrand? They took out the masthead and the names of all the contributors. On the final issue, they shanghai’ed my editorial when it was at the printers and deleted it, replacing it with an ad for Philip Morris. It is a violent story: it was French president François Mitterrand - a Socialist - and his staff they made it crystal clear to my shareholders - a large insurance company, one of whose directors was tightly connected to the Élysée Palace and that whole clan - that the journal needed to be stopped. The shareholders stopped financing it in fact it was straight-up political censure. MICHEL BUTEL - Because of the first Gulf War, to which the journal was violently opposed. So why did L’Autre Journal go out of print when it was such a big success? That journal became a cult item, as well as a reference for many people. OLIVIER ZAHM - The subheading on your new journal L’Impossible is L’Autre Journal (The Other Journal), a reference to a publication that caused a big splash for you in the French press of the 1980s. ![]()
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