The NGO recommends “strong independence guarantees in the appointment” of public service leaders, as well as “a tax imposed by Member States on digital platforms”.
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She denounces “The offensive led by a number of political forces against radios and public televisions”. Economic crisis, political pressures, distrust: the NGO Reporters Without Borders calls for a “European start” facing “Threats” weighing on public audiovisual in Europe, in a report Posted Monday July 21.
“Crossed by multiple crises”public media “can easily be transformed into a government voice as in Italy, and an propaganda pharmacy of the Kremlin, as is the case in Hungary”Two countries respectively managed by the far -right Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban, warns Thibaut Bruttin. RSF denounces the implementation of reforms “Liberticides” under “False pretexts” In “Several member states of the European Union”a situation highlighted by “The election of Donald Trump and the announced abolition of the American outdoor audiovisual”.
Regarding the project to reform audiovisual public in France carried out by the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, the editorial director of RSF Anne Bocandé wonders in Release Yes it’st “well the moment (…), while certain private media do not respect their obligations of pluralism and the concentration of the media is more and more increased ? “”
RSF makes a dozen recommendations: besides “Strong independence guarantees in appointment” Public service media leaders, she advocates“Study a financing system, at European level, based on a tax imposed by Member States on digital platforms”. Another track, the creation of a “European external audiovisual” launched by “A coalition of Member States”Who “Could allow survival” Writings of American international radios Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which Donald Trump is trying to dismantle.
