{"id":561,"date":"2010-10-01T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2010\/10\/01\/editor\/"},"modified":"2020-05-09T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T08:58:53","slug":"editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Apropos last week\u2019s interview of Jooneed Jeeroburkhan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial<\/span><\/p>\n

In last week\u2019s interview of Jooneed Jeeroburkhan, we raised the issue of journalism ethics in the light of recent articles carried in \u2018Journal du Samedi\u2019 concerning the contractual arrangements entered into by Air Mauritius with a number of local publications whereby air tickets were made available to the latter against advertising space allocated to the national airline by the same publications. The question put was as follows: \u00ab\u00a0Puisque nous parlons de la presse, comment avez-vous r\u00e9agi \u00e0 la lecture des r\u00e9v\u00e9lations du Journal du Samedi concernant les contrats n\u00e9goci\u00e9s par Air Mauritius et certains titres de presse ? Contrats qui mettraient \u00e0 la disposition de ces entreprises de presse des billets d’avion \u00ab\u00a0gratuits\u00a0\u00bb en contrepartie des avis publicitaires faits par Air Mauritius dans les publications de ces entreprises. Un tel arrangement porte-t-il atteinte, selon vous, \u00e0 la d\u00e9ontologie journalistique\u00a0?\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It looks like the formulation of the question (and no doubt Jooneed Jeeroburkhan\u2019s views on this matter) would have peeved the Chairman of La Sentinelle Ltd, Jean Claude de l\u2019Estrac, who has forwarded to us copy of the \u201cMise au point\u201d addressed to the \u2018Journal du Samedi\u2019 in this context by Francis Hardy, the legal adviser of La Sentinelle Ltd \u2013 and has drawn our attention to that part thereof which \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9pond aux insinuations de ton journal faites sous forme de question. \u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To be fair, we quote relevant extracts from that \u201cMise au point\u201d pertaining to the question raised by us in the interview of Jooneed Jeerooburkhan:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Il existe un contrat entre Air Mauritius et La Sentinelle Ltd suivant lequel La Sentinelle Ltd obtiendrait des billets d\u2019 Air Mauritius en contrepartie des avis publicitaires faits par Air Mauritius dans les produits de La Sentinelle. La Sentinelle Ltd n\u2019a donc jamais obtenu d\u2019 Air Mauritius de \u00ab\u00a0billets d\u2019avions gratuits\u00a0\u00bb tout comme Air Mauritius n\u2019a jamais obtenu de La Sentinelle Ltd de publicit\u00e9 gratuite. (\u2026)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Par ailleurs, le contrat entre Air Mauritius et La Sentinelle Ltd ne porte en rien atteinte \u00e0 la d\u00e9ontologie journalistique, La Sentinelle Ltd n\u2019ayant rien fait d\u2019autre que d\u2019offrir des espaces publicitaires\u00a0 \u00e0 Air Mauritius \u00e0 un tarif semblable \u00e0 celui pratiqu\u00e9 aupr\u00e8s des autres annonceurs. Cet accord entre la direction de La Sentinelle et Air Mauritius n\u2019a jamais, et d\u2019aucune mani\u00e8re, emp\u00each\u00e9 les journalistes du groupe d\u2019exercer leur esprit critique, tant et si bien qu\u2019Air Mauritius, m\u00e9contente des \u00e9crits de l\u2019express \u00e0 son sujet,\u00a0 boycott le journal et ne l\u2019offre plus \u00e0 bord de ses avions.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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* Published in print edition on <\/em>1 October 2010<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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