[ Propagande gouvernementale sur la télévision publique: Le Mode de nomination des responsables en question ]
Volume 34, Issue 4, November 2021, Pages 750–757
Abiatou Oumarou1 and Jean-Euloge Gbaguidi2
1 Laboratoire d’Etude des Médias, de l’Information et de la Communication, Département des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
2 Laboratoire d’Etude des Médias, de l’Information et de la Communication, Département des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
Original language: French
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Benin has been a democratic country since 1990. Freedom of expression and of the press are guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution of December 11 of the same year. The plurality of opinions that has become the norm on the national television has helped create a space for citizen discussion that is indispensable for political debate, a sign of the vitality of democracy. But this freedom of the press is progressively monitored and even completely confiscated on this statutory agency. Similarly, information is replaced by government propaganda. The television’s managers appointed by the President of the Republic, following a procedure led by the High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication, are not sufficiently independent to open the television to all the components of the nation.
Author Keywords: Propaganda, public television, information.
Volume 34, Issue 4, November 2021, Pages 750–757
Abiatou Oumarou1 and Jean-Euloge Gbaguidi2
1 Laboratoire d’Etude des Médias, de l’Information et de la Communication, Département des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
2 Laboratoire d’Etude des Médias, de l’Information et de la Communication, Département des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Benin has been a democratic country since 1990. Freedom of expression and of the press are guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution of December 11 of the same year. The plurality of opinions that has become the norm on the national television has helped create a space for citizen discussion that is indispensable for political debate, a sign of the vitality of democracy. But this freedom of the press is progressively monitored and even completely confiscated on this statutory agency. Similarly, information is replaced by government propaganda. The television’s managers appointed by the President of the Republic, following a procedure led by the High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication, are not sufficiently independent to open the television to all the components of the nation.
Author Keywords: Propaganda, public television, information.
Abstract: (french)
Le Bénin est un pays démocratique depuis 1990. La liberté d’expression et de presse, y sont garanties à chaque citoyen par la constitution du 11 décembre de la même année. La pluralité d’opinions devenue entre-temps l’habitude sur la télévision a contribué à créer un espace de discussion citoyen indispensable au débat politique, signe de la vitalité de la démocratie. Mais cette liberté de presse devient progressivement surveillée puis complètement confisquée sur cet organe de service public. De la même façon l’information est remplacée par la propagande gouvernementale. Les responsables de la télévision publique nommés par le président de la République, à l’issue d’une procédure pilotée par la Haute autorité de l’audiovisuelle et de la communication, ne sont pas suffisamment indépendants pour ouvrir les antennes de la télévision à toutes les composantes de la nation.
Author Keywords: Propagande, télévision publique, information.
How to Cite this Article
Abiatou Oumarou and Jean-Euloge Gbaguidi, “Government propaganda on Benin’s public television: Questioning the method of appointing the channel’s officials,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 750–757, November 2021.
