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| | Par:- Gilles RIBOUET
On 30/06/2009 |
Des paroles qui en disent long. Le service public est bel et bien au service du politique. Dans l’édition de l’express de ce jour (mardi 30 juin), l’interview de Bijaye Madhou, ex-directeur de la Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), réalisée par Deepa Bhookhun, est éclairante à cet égard.
Si «71 % de la population regarde le journal télévisé» de la MBC, c’est autant qui subit la propagande d’un outil média instrumentalisé. Il n’y a qu’à voir les grands titres, le traitement et la couverture de l’information: l’omniprésence du leader politique du jour, en l’occurrence Navin Ramgoolam, choque. On a beau se targuer d’être un modèle de démocratie en Afrique, on n’a pas encore su se débarrasser de certains oripeaux médiatiques des régimes autocratiques. Excessif? A peine.
Le chef du gouvernement actuel peut se cacher derrière l’intention de limiter la surexposition dont il a été l’objet depuis quatre ans. Quatre années de bons et loyaux services pendant lesquelles Bijaye Madhou, non sans fierté, s’est attelé «à contribuer à l’image positive du Premier ministre». Il faudrait voir dans la décision de Navin Ramgoolam et dans la déclaration d’intention du nouveau patron de la télévision nationale, Dan Callikan, pour qui «la MBC doit être plus crédible», une pirouette politicienne visant à redorer le blason d’une équipe trop exposée.
Dan Callikan, conseiller en communication de Navin Ramgoolam, est du reste un ancien de la MBC qu’il a piloté à la fin des années 1980, soit un an avant la tenue des élections générales de 1987. Le scénario se répèterait-il?
Navin Ramgoolam ne cherche-t-il pas à envoyer un nouveau message en faisant mine de reprocher à Bijaye Madhou son excès de zèle médiatique?
Le fond du problème reste la main mise du fait politicien (plus que du fait politique) sur la MBC. Le service public est relégué au second plan. Et même s’il faut reconnaître à Bijaye Madhou des avancées dans l’audiovisuel local, force est de relever la partialité outrageuse dans le traitement de l’information.
On ne peut blâmer uniquement ce gouvernement. La pratique a fait place à la normalité, peu importe la couleur. Cela dit, on est en droit d’attendre d’un nominé politique de l’indépendance, de l’objectivité (oui, c’est beaucoup demander), plutôt qu’un aveuglement servile. A moins qu’attendre un tel service ne soit trop demandé.
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| STRAND | | | From STRAND.
Le service public est bel et bien au service du politique.
On est en droit d’attendre d’un nominé politique de l’indépendance, de l’objectivité (oui, c’est beaucoup demander.
1. This statement must make Atlas shrug. Move towards participatory or co-governance. Western governments are realizing that good governance cannot be the state’s responsibility alone and that many social issues need non-state actors in order to be addressed effectively. Governments seek and are expected to address issues like anti-social behaviour, obesity, parenting and the ‘radicalisation’ of religious groups. Yet such issues are not amenable to the kinds of policy and regulatory instruments available to central government. They require cultural and personal changes governments are not able to tackle alone. Citizens involved groups are a key constituency that governments are seeking to enlist in addressing these issues as they are seen as repositories of the kinds of cultural, moral and social resources vital for effecting change.
o State as partner not provider –, In debates about the future of the welfare state a common approach across the political spectrum is for the state to recast itself as a ‘partner’ rather than sole provider of welfare services. The result is that the state is angling for groups to partner with – citizens communities fit the bill.
o How can we be mere spectators in the choice and appointment of political nominees at heads of government run bodies? We all are constitutionally empowered to vote for the party and candidate of our choice at general election. Yet somehow it looks most curious that the selection of unknown persons, with no profile to the jobs they get, become the masters and maestro of State Bodies that involve the voters and tax payer’s money.
o Can a political nominee work in a professional and accountability manner; when the political machinery causes him/her to show blind obedience at all times.
o The political nominee is an exclusive animal , that pledge allegiance to the political party and minister that choose him , and as such do the very best to succumb to the directives being issued, and never question the hands that feed him.
o The voters are excluded from this appointment exercise, and this is a time to marshall the idea that a more defined rules and guidelines be established when nominations to Government run bodies get under way.
o We accept the make believe for what it was. But in much of the modern world the issue is a bit more serious. We are in the world not of make-believe but of make-overs. Walk down almost any street in town, and you'll see banks, businesses, cafes and bars busy reinventing themselves. Time for a change—to the décor and the name. Businesses, charities, seem obsessed with re-branding themselves. You do wonder a bit how much difference it really makes. So what's going on? I suppose that behind all this is an anxiety. What do people really think of political nominees? Do they trust us, do they admire us. Perhaps if we changed the name, changed the image, they look better, and be trusted and relied on. Worth a try. But how do we know?
Voters, tax payer, pennies and pounds- we all live and know a very vivid picture of what debt meant on our doorsteps. And where, time after time, the media report would speak about the stress for ordinary families caused by debt and by loan-sharking activities, and by the way in which the pressure of debt was one of the major factors leading to the unravelling of family life and the further weakening of social bonds in those deeply stressed communities.
Now I don't for a moment imagine that the situation in Mauritius about political nominees is unique in Mauritius. But elsewhere they are –the citizen’s group- are forging changes that matters do not stay in a rut. In Mauritius we’re told that some 70 percent of family breakup of various kinds identifies as a major contributory cause stress occasioned by debt. We are aware of figures which, at this time, remind us of the strain on families once again of incurring debt i. Another statistic which I've come across recently is that of middle class people living rough at Caritas in common dormitories and leaving for work with a suitcase atthe moment ascribe their position to family breakup with financial implications. Then what about those huge piling debts resulting through sheer mismanagements, where political nominees run the show. That’s a very sad situation; such heads of State bodies grow into adults but don't know how to be adults.
So there are questions then that need to be addressed. It is very good news that today we be able to be discussing on, the government initiative about revising the profile of candidates for State Bodies. Alt we welcome quite simply the fact that it will be there on the political manifesto agenda. It needs to be kept on the agenda and I'm sure that those on all sides will wish to keep it there, and to pursue the fundamental questions which arise in connection with it.
But, it's everyone's job, the job we are trying to address today. Everyone's job to work towards a situation where a State Body is a stable, nurturing environment, an environment where it is possible to talk about the most difficult matters, an environment where people learn how to manage their lives because they feel trusted and they know there are trustworthy people alongside them. So support, the system, and the hope, the vision this project offers will have very wide implications. Hope that those who support it today will continue to support it in that vein, with that vision in mind. It matters so desperately for just getting the political nominee to walk away after an audit report, the mind boggling finance waste, the loss opportunities, the model of thift, of sound analysis in matters of expenses, and good housekeeping must surely come from those high quarters primarily.
. | | | Guyan | | | Le vrai changement, il n'y aurait point ! Seul l'emballage prendra un coup de neuf. Le contenu, lavez vous vu hier pendant le JT de 7.30 pm ? Navin Ramgoolam passe deux fois "live" sur le projet de loi sur l'ADN en espace de quelques minutes!!!! | | | Misere Noire | | | Si tout est relative, Ile Maurice ne peut se dire democratique avec la realite' de la modalite' electoral mauricienne. En plus, la machine Gouvernemental, Police, MBC sont sans relache partisan de Navin Ramgoolam. Avec ceci, les impots recoltes' d'autres Communaute's vivant tranquillement depuyis des siecles sur le litoral sont puise' pour maintenir L'emploi de passetemps pour une communaute' qui s'indentifie par conditionement communautaire a Navin RAMGOOLAM. oU EST DONC le development mauricien, ou est donc la democratie, ceux qui echappe au conditionment communal quittent le pays en grand nombres, ceux qui pensent pensent ailleurs car Ramgoolam et la machine Politique paye' par une Communaute' ne participe plus a la Poltiue Ramgolamiste ou voleur des resources mauriciens pour sa gloire personnel sans merite. | | | FATTYACID | | | Bravo pour Dan et desole pour Bijaye. Mais question>>>>Ramgoolam dans tout cela? D`une pierre deux coups?
Explications:
- La nomination de bacha et le retour de Ruhee au bercail faisait un certain overcrowding au sein du bureau du Premier Ministre. Bacha, Ruhee et Kalikhan ne pouvaient faire menage a trois et logiquement Ramgoolam a profite `des conneries` de Madhoo pour caser Dan afin de garder ses gardes Bacha et Ruhee a ses cotes pour la campagne qui arrive.
Make sens?
Autre question:
What will be the nouveau salaire de Dan?
Same as adviser to PM?
Please les journalistes, can you POSE the question?
Thanks and lets FATTYACID
| | | acoute | | | Mon cher tonyboy, tu sembles oublie que la MBC NOUS sommes en train de la payer de gre et de force. Alors on est en droit de demander value for money. D'ailleurs je me demande s'il y a vraiment 71% d'audimat dans la population. et de toute facon 29% de la population (pres de 350,000 personnes) se fait avoir | | | marie | | | I am not being melodramatic when I say that it is an environmental disaster. The video was truly shocking. What are the authorities doing to ensure that a tourist and marine conservation area, of such importance for the island, does not get ruined by some unscrupulous builders?
Once again, I am going to mention tourism. The island depends so much on tourism. What image is Mauritius portraying with such flagrant abuse and destruction of the environment.
The state of the island in some places makes feel like weeping.
Flic-en-Flac, once voted among the 10 best beaches in the world is in a sad state.
The excuse is erosion. Or is it the unstoppable march of progress? Those builders must get their sand somewhere.......
When I last visited Mauritius in 2006, I just stood on the beach at Flic-en-Flac and was shocked by its state of degradation. I know that beach very well, having grown up in Quatre-Bornes, and I could see the extent of the damage. And it did not look like erosion, rather like someone had taken the top layer off.
Erosion would not discriminate, and yet on the same stretch of beach, the hotel beaches are still in pristine condition, it is just the public part that has eroded.
please, please, please lobby the government to put a stop to such disasters.
If the beaches go, what will tourists go all that way for? Remember, Mauritius is so far away from everyone else. There is always somewhere closer and cheaper to go to. So Mauritius has to be extra special - something which sadly is not happening at the moment.
| | | The Pogues | | | Privatiser la MBC demeure la solution ideale. Mais tenant compte de la publicite gratuite qu'elle offre aux gouvernants du jour, la population attendra encore longtemps. | | | Tizan | | | La MBC est la honte nationale et ça n'a que trop duré. Si les politiciens ne se bougent pas là-dessus, il faudrait que les mauriciens boycottent cette institution en cessant payer les redevances jusqu`à ce qu'il y ait une vraie indépendance et démocratisation des ondes télévisées locales!! | | | TonyBoy | | | Si la mediocrité de la MBC, dont on en parle autant, vous derange. Zappez!
Why waste so much energy with them. | | | jimmy | | | Il faut absolument privitiser une cahine de MBC!!! | |
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