Politique d'information et pratiques journalistiques : les differences de traitement de l'information entre journalistes anglophones et francophones a cameroon tribune
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Abstract EN:
"modern cameroon is the result of two communities emerging from a joint francobritish colonisation. From that the institution of an official bilingualism was designed to express this origin. The media of the state are construed following this dualist logic and is composed of bilingual wording. Now, despite an institutional environment preaching a "united voice", the official press produces a polyphonic discourse, often contrary to government stipulations. These differences are often due to the english-speaking journalists who use the media as a means of assertion and as a vehicle for political demands in the face of a french-speaking majority power. In this way cameroon journalists seem to have developed notable specific pratices of reflecting the "interior" environment which is reflected by their activity, and tending to reproduce strong relationships which cross the socio-political field of a country where englishspeakers and french-speaking build up, consciously or not, strategies directed at maintaining or modifiying the balance of forces which govern their relationships".
Abstract FR:
"le cameroun actuel est le resultat de l'unification de deux communautes issues d'une double colonisation franco-britannique. Le bilinguisme officiel anglais-francais est destine a exprimer sa specificite. Les medias d'etat, et notamment le quotidien officiel cameroon tribune sont construits suivant cette logique dualiste et composes de redactions bilingues. Or, malgre un environnement institutionnel prechant l'univocite, la presse officielle produit un discours polyphonique, parfois contraire aux prescriptions gouvernementales. Ces ecarts sont generalement le fait des anglophones qui se servent des medias comme moyens d'affirmation et vehicules de revendications politiques face a un pouvoir majoritairement francophone. Ainsi, les journalistes camerounais paraissent avoir developpe des pratiques specifiques marquees de l'empreinte de l'environnement a l'interieur duquel se deroule leur activite, et tendant a reproduire les rapports de force qui traversent le champ socio-politique d'un pays ou anglophones et francophones construisent consciemment ou non, des strategies visant a maintenir ou a modifier l'equilibre des forces qui regissent leurs rapports.