Canar Anshene

Founded in 1915, circulation in 2008 - 503 thousand copies. It leaves on Wednesdays, occupies 8 bands. The newspaper basically does not publish advertising and exists on income from sales; this circumstance significantly contributes to its independence and credibility. The shareholders of the newspaper (Marechal Publishing House) are only its employees. At the same time, salaries are among the highest in the French press. The financial report of the newspaper is fully open and published every year in August. Editors do not have the right to play on the exchange, engage in copywriting , accept gifts and government awards.

The name comes from a newspaper published at the beginning of the 20th century edited by Clemenceau - “Free Man” ( French: L'homme libre ), which, due to censorship, changed its name to “Man in Chains”. “Duck” (canard) is the French slang term for a newspaper (and, in particular, for a bloated newspaper sensation, which is also included in the Russian language).

Historically, the Canar publishers adhered to left-wing anti-war views (with elements of anarchism ), however, starting in the 1920s, they began to dissociate themselves from both socialists and communists; the socialist governments (Blum, Mendes-France, Mitterrand) were perceived by the Duck as a whole more favorably than the right, but with an invariable share of irony and skepticism. At present, the newspaper is positioning itself as objective and independent.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Fifth Republic in 2008, a voluminous volume was published - a chronicle of the history of the state in the cartoons "Canary Anshene" with comments.

A special role in French politics is played by journalistic investigations published in the Canary. Back in the 1930s, she was examining the Staviski case . A number of high-profile cases led to the collapse of the career of some politicians ( Jacques Chaban-Delmas , Valerie Giscard d'Estaing - dealing with Bokassa I diamonds). Investigations are often based on leaks of information collected through a network of “insiders”; usually this information does not appear in the central French press, and the Canary successfully fills this niche. In the 1960s, when Duck began to appear on 8 pages, it became a particularly formidable social force; it is known that on Wednesdays Charles de Gaulle asked: “what does the feathered creature write?” (que dit le volatile?). Kanar Anshene has developed its own special jargon, for example, special nicknames for politicians: Moygeneral (in one word; de Gaulle), Vali (Giscard d'Estaing), Uncle (Mitterrand), Chichy (Chirac ) and so on.

A prominent place in the “Kanar Anshena” is occupied by inappropriate statements by politicians (often for this reason not falling into the rest of the press), reservations, typos, inadvertent ambiguities, accompanied by usually laconic, sarcastic commentary; Spoonerisms occupy a special section. An example of such an editorial comment: one of the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of France, during the years of its sharp decline, inadvertently said: “Some say that the Communist Party is dead. But no, she’s not buried yet! ”Citing this phrase from a party functionary, Kanar Anshene added:“ How must she smell good. ”

A special section is devoted to theater and cinema. During the presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy, the newspaper published “The Diary of Carla B.” - a parody diary on behalf of the president’s wife Carla Bruni (who appears to be a capricious “bohemian bourgeois”); it was printed in a pink frame on the first page of each issue.

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