« A range of governments are increasingly restricting media freedom using licensing and regulatory frameworks and receive little criticism or attention for doing so, according to Freedom House’s newest report, License to Censor: The Use of Media Regulation to Restrict Press Freedom.
The report provides an overview analyzing this trend at a global level and in-depth analyses of the regulatory environments in eight countries: Ecuador, Georgia, Indonesia, Lebanon, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. It describes some of the most commonly used methods to regulate the media—legal controls on licensing and registration, regulatory bodies that are not independent or operate in an nontransparent or politicized manner, and the imposition of vague content requirements on media outlets—as well as detailing the use of arbitrary or extralegal actions, including license denials and the suspension or closure of media outlets to restrict media freedom… »
Source : freedomhouse.org/ [En ligne] Consulté le 21/10/2011
► Sur ce sujet, le centre de documentation vous propose de consulter :
Frédéric Rognon (ed) : Médias et démocratie – Entre affinités électives et mutuelles suspicions (Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2010- – Coll. Chemins d’éthique
