André Pratte
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André Pratte (born in 1957) is a Quebec journalist and economist. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Montreal large-circulation newspaper La Presse. In Quebec, he is a notable voice of the Quebec federalist ideology.
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[edit] Biography
During the 1980s, Pratte worked at radio station CKAC in Montreal. He switched from the airwaves to the written press in 1986. Succeding Alain Dubuc, he became Editor-in-Chief for La Presse in 2001, defending the federalist and fiscally centre-right political stance of the paper. In 2005, Pratte was among the group who signed the manifesto "For a clear-eyed vision of Quebec", better known by the French title "Pour un Québec lucide" and critical of the social democratic so-called Quebec Model. Criticized by some sovereigntists, he has defended his neutrality and has claimed in the book Aux pays des merveilles to be a soft-nationalist and have a soft-sovereigntist past (with claims of YES votes in both 1980 and 1995 Quebec referendums).
He published a number of books at VLB éditeur. The first, Le Syndrome de Pinocchio discussed a lying "syndrome" in politicians and was the subject of a censure motion from the National Assembly of Quebec in 1997. He also published a biography of the future Premier of Quebec Jean Charest under the title L'Énigme Charest in 1997, drawing a paradoxical portrait of the man. He would redirect his criticism upon his own journalistic profession in Les Oiseaux de malheur in 2000.
[edit] Bibliography
- Le Syndrome de Pinocchio (1997)
- L'Énigme Charest (1998)
- Les Oiseaux du malheur (2000)
- Le Temps des girouettes (2003)
- Aux pays des merveilles: Essai sur les mythes politiques québécois (2006)
[edit] External link
- Article archive (1996 to 2004) at Vigile.net
