This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Rabat
The Center for the Study of the Southern Provinces has filed a complaint with the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication, concerning “professional failings committed by the Médi 1 television channel in the city of Laâyoune”.
The Sahara Center for Scientific Studies and Research explained in the complaint: “The channel adopted a media style mixing economic, commercial, emotional and racist approaches in its coverage of events. » The Center indicated that this method lacks professionalism and impartiality in the provision of public media services.
The center added in its complaint: “As a regulatory body responsible for monitoring media practices in the audiovisual field at the national level, we express our deep dissatisfaction with the negative reactions expressed by social and media circles. , policies and public institutions. in the region, towards the method of the TV Médi 1 channel in Coverage of events in the southern regions.
The center also mentioned the demands of media professionals and local institutions on the need to “develop a new vision of the channel in its treatment of regional issues in the Moroccan Sahara, and its commitment to total neutrality and to working remotely with all parties concerned. gone to the region.
The Center for Studies and Research on Media in the Sahara has called on the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication to constitute a “commission of inquiry” with the aim of investigating the numerous professional violations which harm the media scene in the Sahara Moroccan, while taking appropriate measures and applying the necessary sanctions.
