Those who feel aggrieved often have recourse to the laws referring to defamation, publication of false news, etc.

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Games of selling newspaper without telling the truth to the population before of what will happen to the country. This was foreseen

i will say without facts which is my opinion that the groups backing those newspapers are mostly the 2% of the population. I don’t have anything against the 2%, We cannot revert the “time machine”.

The groups behind influence the turn the marxist approach of the journalist. You know this is the invisible hand i am talking about. The journalists are at the mercy of the invisible hand. Journalist rarely talk about the Mauritius “d’en bas”. People living in slum. Journalist rarely talk about the mauritius “d’en haut”. They don’t touch these issues. Those are invisible for jounalist. I come to the “foresee” point. Foresee in terms of what is happening. The invisible people are better off( en haut) and the ones (en bas) are in a worse situation ever. Let’s analyse the budget report from every newspaper… it’s weird.Only positivity. No negativity. I read the finance bill. I see this is purely a razor type budget which has no provision for the social aspect. You see christina, I won’t talk about the mbc=> “Hors catégorie” since the beginning of our conversation. I will say that the press is the insulator of the social dilema presently in mauritius.

We will wait , we won’t see, the same rule dictates since the beginning. Same old rule. Invisibles remain invisibles. Professionals will debate but won’t utter a single word, Unions are “muselé”. Press also i think but voluntarilly.

Episode i like when the ancien “redacteur” of one major newspapers said matinal was praticing dumping. At least now there is awareness. But too bad matinal is Pro labour.

Good Journalists we don’t have.Coming back to point A you said. Impartiality also we don’t have. We knows who owns what. Only anhee is “the last of the mohicans”. Yeah he is an MMM nostalgics too.

To end i’ll say : Journalists are aware of the reality.Yet they prefer to “manigance” it.

Thanks,
Elvis

When you say “Games of selling newspaper without telling the truth to the population before of what will happen to the country. This was foreseen”, I don’t quite see what you are referring to. Foresee what?

Also, when you say “Journalist in mauritius are communism who are under the fire of capitalism”, I do not agree at all. In fact, I would tend to say that journalists are not savvy enough to question the declarations and doings of the business world and of the politicians.

My point is that the business world (as everywhere else) has consolidated its communication techniques through PR and Marketing and they are doing this very well now. It’s their job to promote their companies’ image and they’re doing it very well and I respect that. But it’s the journalists’ job to report news in such a way that they can enlighten people and uncover unpleasant facts that hinder public interest. This means being able to get around all the spindoctoring.

More importantly, they should be able to do that for political news as well be it for the opposition or the government. And one can see that the communication techniques employed by the business world are increasingly being used by the politicians as well.

Regarding Le Matinal, I think it’s good that this third player entered the market. However, one needs to adopt the same critical stance towards all the media players to be fair. And it is a quite well-known fact that this paper has a pro-Labour approach. Also, it has not yet fully proved its worth. It has improved since its inception but we still need to watch how it evolves over time. It seems to me that the product is geared towards the ‘commercial’ and a lot of trivial info in order to sell the paper to its audience and to sell the audience to advertisers.

But, let’s wait and see…

Let’s put passion in this issue. Mauritian politicians want to “muselé” the local press. Yet we know they won’t do it. BAI which hold the ledefi plus group has a lot of economies of scale to gain. (rightly said again by you).

You said lack of skills from journalists. I can add that they are from the MMM generation. Today these people control the newspaper now. The MMM in the years 68. Most journalists are from these schools. “Revendication”.

Today it’s very sad as we know this country is in deep trouble, cause the journalists didn’t do the job. They played the games along with the big capitalism and the politicians. Games of selling newspaper without telling the truth to the population before of what will happen to the country. This was foreseen.

They failed.They have been decieved. Journalist in mauritius are communism who are under the fire of capitalism.

The Matinal will act as a “correcting” factor in this avenue. As they lowered their price. And this is globalisation.

Thanks christina Meetoo.

It is however true to say that there are some vested interests. As you rightly pointed out, MCB is financially linked to La Sentinelle (the company which owns L’express), which explains its light treatment of the MBC/NPF affair.

Also there is an increased tendency towards concentration and formation of big groups in order to benefit from economies of scale…

As for Le Mauricien, it is currently leader on the dailies as it seeks to cover a wider spectrum of factual items and it tries to keep a neat separation between factual reporting and opinion-writing (specially with Ahnee’s editorials).

The strategy of L’express is different as it tries to seduce people with more feature-writing, light pieces and a multiplication of special dossiers with a more business-oriented mindset.

Plus, on top of that you have to look at the grassroots journalists themselves, their strengths and limitations (e.g. being easily intimidated by politicians and other high profile people, lack of research skills, etc.)

A complex but interesting issue…