"We have newspaper owners who own billboards, pollsters, and are also involved in the presidential elections, which is a mess!"

"It's a total disorder that we are currently witnessing in the Senegalese media scene, because today we have press bosses who are at the same time owners of polling structures, billboards and also involved in the political scene. Which creates a total mess in the media scene, "said CNRA President Babacar Diagne.
On tour in the North region to sensitize the regional correspondents on the responsibility and the paths to be followed for a good media coverage of the electoral campaign of February 24th, 2019, Babacar Diagne warns these bosses of press.
But before arriving at sanctions for these specific cases, the president of the CNRA puts forward the dialogue with the concerned. "We do not want to be pushed to sanction, we want to discuss, to have a dialogue, there is a warning and we notice that there have been positive changes that we have noted", suggests the former director general of RTS …