What impact for Mediacités Toulouse surveys in 2022
Reveal and after? What happens once the Mediacités surveys are published? This question, we ask it every week and, often, we bring an answer to it with the publication of new articles, “complements of investigation”. It prevents ! At the time of the end-of-year assessments, the questioning of the usefulness and the role of a media like ours comes back with more acuity than usual: concretely, what is the use of local investigation? ?
For the third consecutive year, we have immersed ourselves in the publications of the last twelve months – more than 200 for the Toulouse edition alone – in order to draw up our “2022 Impact Report”. Have our investigations moved the lines? Do they need to improve or put an end to the dysfunctions they reveal? Did they initiate a debate, an awareness, a legal procedure? Or, conversely, did they go into previews and, to put it another way, did they flop?
Here are some elements of answers.
1 – The strange practices of Jean-Luc Moudenc’s chief of staff
Recall of facts – Accusations of harassment, exhaustion of the teams, cascading broadcasts… After six months of investigation, Mediacités published on October 22, 201 a long investigation which caused a stir. She met the day the deleterious atmosphere that reigns within the office of the mayor of Toulouse. At the center of the charges: the behavior of the chief of staff, Arnaud Mounier. At the time, Jean-Luc Moudenc reiterated “all [s]a confidence, without reservation, and the denigration formed by these base accusations is for me the opportunity to reaffirm it even more strongly. »
Impact – Less than a year later, the mayor of Toulouse let go of his faithful chief of staff and propelled him to the post of deputy director general of the head of the Cité de l’espace. A golden parachute (110,000 euros gross annual salary) which arouses controversy, Arnaud Mounier having no particular experience to claim in the management of public facilities.
Our articles to (re)read:
In Toulouse, the haemorrhage of employees continues in the office of Jean-Luc Moudenc
2 – The director of the Ducuing hospital dismissed
Recall of facts – In December 2021, in full 5e wave of Covid, the internal and general medicine department of the Joseph-Ducuing hospital in Toulouse is closing its doors. The event is the final straw that broke the camel’s back for the fed up medical teams. For some time now, departures have multiplied due to strong opposition to the management of the establishment and its mode of management deemed “aggressive”.
Impact – The mobilization of a large part of the staff, current and former, and the media coverage of the crisis situation at the hospital – in particular by Mediacités – finally got the better of the director of the Hospital Joseph Ducuing Eric Fallet, who was dismissed from office on February 25, 2022 by its Board of Directors, four years after his arrival.
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3 – The shortage of general practitioners in Toulouse is disconcerting
Recall of facts – On September 19, 2022, Mediacités published the first survey in a series devoted to the shortage of general practitioners and the means of dealing with it. Our exclusive count shows that, in the city of Toulouse alone, 169 doctors are missing to raise the town to the French average for medical presence. Worse: 58% of Toulouse residents even live, according to our calculations, in a medical desert at the scale of their neighborhood (i.e. areas where the medical density is 30% or more lower than the national average) .
Impact – Our data goes against a dominant thought according to which the shortage of doctors only impacts rural areas. They contribute to an awareness of this problem which, given medical demographics and retirements, has every chance of getting worse in the years to come. Mediacités is extending its series of surveys by organizing a public conference, collecting testimonials from patients and working to bring out solutions that could partially reduce this worrying concern.
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4 – Comment on the Muretain agglomeration made a promoter earn a million
Recall of facts – Mediacités reveals, on September 12, the conditions of sale of land to a promoter by the agglomeration of Muretain at a price significantly lower than the estimate of the Domains, which is strictly prohibited by law.
Impact – The municipal opposition seizes the file and demands explanations to the mayor of Muret in the municipal council on October 6th. At the same time, she announces to seize the regional chamber of accounts and to have written to the prefect of Occitania and to the minister in charge of local communities. For its part, the Anticor anti-corruption association is preparing a report for “presumed probity” with the Toulouse prosecutor.
Our articles to (re)read:
Sale at a discount in Muret to a promoter: an opponent LREM challenges the authorities
5 – When Pôle emploi Occitanie wants to make the unemployed more Zen
Recall of facts – While the government is working on a new, more restrictive unemployment insurance reform, six agencies in Occitanie are discreetly recruiting – via a service provider – specialists in conflict management. These project managers in interpersonal relations are recruited on fixed-term contracts at a gross rate of 1,330 euros per month for 25 hours per week. Their mission? Teach job seekers to better manage their “emotional load”.
Impact – The initiative was revealed by Mediacités on October 31, 2022. It caused an outcry among the trade union organizations of Pôle emploi who predict that this money could be much better placed by hiring, for example, compensation officers whose number has dropped significantly. … which helps to annoy job seekers. Strangely, the ads were removed the day after we contacted the Pôle Emploi service in charge of press relations.
Our article to (re)read:
When Pôle emploi Occitanie wants to make the unemployed more Zen
6 – Handicap: the Cric de Toulouse adrift
Recall of facts – The Rehabilitation Center for Civil Invalids (Cric) is an essential organization in Toulouse in the sector of professional and social integration of disabled people. On October 17, Mediacités describes a “drift” structure. The waltz of managers and trainers, communication difficulties, repeated sick leave… Le Cric has become a “mistreating place” according to the many employees we interviewed. For staff and residents alike.
Impact – Three days after the publication of our investigation, the president of Cric Jean-Claude Clermont announces his withdrawal – not without having qualified Mediacités as “scandal press”. On December 14, the Regional Health Agency, which oversees the Cric and him towards 10 million subsidies per year, finally comes out of its reserve and receives a delegation of employees. To calm the situation, the director of the ARS imposes the creation of a mediation unit between the management of the Cric and the unions from January 2023.
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