Le Petit Journal

Le Petit Journal is a French TV show broadcast that airs every weekday on Canal+, hosted by journalist Yann Barthès since its beginning in 2004. It was a part of the TV show Le Grand Journal until 2011, when it became independent. Le Petit Journal presents the news in an offset and funny way. During the 2008 United States presidential campaign, Yann Barthès and his Le Petit Journal crew created a buzz on the Internet when they installed themselves, along with several joking banners, clearly visible in the background of a "very serious" American show filmed in New York City. On the night of the election, they joined New Yorkers in Times Square and hosted aloft a banner bearing the word "Cassoulet", as well as another version with the words "Cassoulet Forever". Their exploits were shown live on ABC News. The banner created quite a stir throughout the United States; Time Magazine even reported on it in a following issue. On November 5, the day following the election, "Cassoulet" was the 62nd most researched word on Google worldwide.