“Public interest” or “interested public” ?

There can be no reflection on the press ethics without raising the question of finding a balance between press freedom and its regulation. Press freedom is one of the main public freedoms amongst freedom of speech and religion. It is guaranteed by international treaties and by fundamental legal texts in most democratic countries. It is …

Commercial pressure : are journalist getting to be unethical ?

Journalists can succumb to guilty arrangements with their morals: a willingness to please, or not to displease, a radical desire to prove at all costs. There can be many bad reasons for this and they regularly threaten journalists' ethics if they are not careful. Unfortunately, these are not the only threats to their profession. There …

What will be the new high-tech trends in the next 10 years ?

We had to wait until the beginning of this century to see the emergence of the new notion of exchange platform between consumers (listeners, Internet users, spectators) on one hand, advertisers and content providers, on another hand. We also notice the emergence of the notion of interdependence between the media content market and the advertising …

Members of the UK parliament refer to Facebook as the “digital gangster”

In a report published in 2019, the British parliamentarians did not hesitate to attack the Californian company head-on, judging it incapable of fighting “fake news” and abusing the exploitation of data. The MPs consider that the time for self-regulation for the network majors is over and that it is now necessary to put in place …

A dead-end job

A story of a French grave digger. The town hall of a small town in the suburbs of Paris had the surprising idea to help financially young people if they contribute to a community service, not by helping children nor the homeless, but by having them remove the gravel paths in a graveyard. Working in a cemetery, …