During the plenary held this Wednesday at the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, a debate was held in matters of media health cordon applied by RTBF during the inauguration speech of the new President of the United States Donald Trump. A speech broadcast slightly deferred by the public channel. Like many viewers, the Diana Nikolic group head of group said it was challenged by this choice posed by the public channel “in order to allow a perspective”.
If for the PS, the RTBF has the right to have an independent editorial line and to apply the health cordon to far -right speeches, the MR recalls that in French -speaking Belgium, the health cordon applies to parties of extreme right. However, whether or not we like his political project or his remarks, the new President of the United States Donald Trump is democratically elected under the banner of the Republican Party. The group chef recalled that for the MR, the role of the media is to analyze, to comment, to decode the information to give the keys to the viewers to forge their own opinion, without imposing anything to them.
Questioned by the latter, the Minister of Media Jacqueline Galant also said he was “surprised by (this) RTBF decision”. “Without questioning the principle of the health cord, I wonder about the effectiveness of this decision insofar as all other French -speaking media transmitted this swearing in live”. And to announce his desire to challenge RTBF to know “methodology” as well as the “legal arguments” on which public radio and television was relied on to make this decision.
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