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Senegal has "250 radios and more than 20 televisions", many of which have no convention and do not comply with specifications, lamented the president of the National Council for the Regulation of Audiovisual (CNRA), Babacar Diagne, insisting on the need to correct these "failures" to put an end to this "total anarchy in the audiovisual sector".
"Senegal now has 259 radios and more than 20 identified TVs", "many of them have no convention, let alone specifications," he said at the opening a regional sensitization and sharing workshop with journalists operating in the Saint-Louis, Matam and Louga regions.
According to the president of the CNRA, this situation has led to "total disorganization and anarchy in the audiovisual sector", hence the need to correct these "shortcomings, to obtain a rich media landscape and in accordance with the legislation "and" avoid drifts in this sector ".
Babacar Diagne notes that this meeting is essentially to equip the media on the provisions made by the audio-visual regulator for the next elections, including the presidential elections of February 2019, "important moments for democracy".
Several papers were on the menu of this regional workshop, including the one moderated by the CNRA's chief of staff, Matar Sall, on "the practical arrangements for organizing and media coverage of election campaigns, especially in the run-up to the 2019 presidential elections".
Journalists must understand the mission and role of the CNRA, demonstrating a "great professional conscience" and "republican sense of national defense," said Sall, a lawyer by training.
In this context, he recalled, the CNRA, the media regulatory body, "ensures that the principle of equality between candidates is respected in the public information service information programs, which represent the reproduction and comments of statements, writings, activities of candidates (…) ''.
The journalist Ibrahima Bakhoum animated him a communication on "the practices in conformity with the rules of ethics and deontology in the media".
In his remarks, he did not fail to draw the attention of journalists to the way information is handled during precamps and election campaigns, insisting that "ethics and deontology should guide media men ".
He also advised journalists to consider that "the right to information of the public, to a fair and balanced information takes precedence over any other consideration", which must for example lead to complying with the truth "without taking into account 'no personal consideration'.
According to him, the journalist, in the exercise of his mission, "must respect the dignity of the human person and of social groups, especially minority groups" and not carry out "any alteration of the information, in particular by the suppression of essential elements to its balance and impartiality ".
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