Public Media … For Sale !

After the remarks made by the president of Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, and the deputy of the movement in the National Constituent Assembly, Ameur Larayedh, about the privatization of the public media, many national organizations and members of the civil society expressed their dissatisfaction about this declaration.

The president of movement “ Ennahdha “ has proclaimed in an interview with the Qatari newspaper “ Al-Sharq “ published in in April, 18th that his party’s aspiration consist of finding radical measure in the field of media by the privatization of media, by asking “ why  the democratic regime maintains official media ? “ accusing that some public Tunisian media plot against the willingness of the people.

Even the national authority for the reform of information and communication (NARIC) has warned against the serious press statements and has insisted especially for these declarations of the leaders of Ennahdha movement.

  Let’s now focus on the purpose of the story: does the presence of a public media oppose a democratic regime? The NARIC reminds that many experiences of democratic transitions in all over the world disprove this thesis, otherwise, logically, any revolution requires a maintained public media totally objective and express the preoccupations of all citizens and all that need a hard work and long attendance and supports from all the constituent of the society and the government, and let the aspirations of Ennahdha and the entire Tunisian people of professional and objective public media be achieved by the responsible authority of reforming the information and the communication.

- Yassër Ben Hmouda -

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