{"id":11333,"date":"2019-01-11T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=11333"},"modified":"2019-01-14T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T09:09:52","slug":"parcem-to-set-up-media-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/parcem-to-set-up-media-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"PARCEM to set up Media Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faustin Ndikumana, chairman of PARCEM, an organization involved in the changes of mindset says the media observatory\u2019s objective will be to follow closely activities done by media houses and their regulator-the National Communication Council. \u201cMedia play an important role in the country\u2019s development. People give their points of view and leaders must know that they are accountable to the population,\u201d says Ndikumana.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11309\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11309\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Faustin-Ndikumana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Faustin-Ndikumana.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Faustin-Ndikumana-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Faustin-Ndikumana-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Faustin-Ndikumana-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faustin Ndikumana: \u201cMedia play an important role and their activities need to be followed closely.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He also says some media organizations ignore that they must grant equal space to their interlocutors. \u201cSome reports and interviews are biased and journalists who make them are not punished according to the press law,\u201d says the PARCEM chairman.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the National Communication Council-CNC has to intervene and regulate media houses according to its organic law. \u201cCNC must ensure that media houses respect the freedom of expression instead of focusing on sanctions only\u201d, says Ndikumana adding that CNC also made some promises that need to be assessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVOA and BBC radio stations, which were banned from broadcasting in Burundi since 7 May 2018,were promised by the CNC to resume broadcasting after six months in vain\u201d, says Ndikumana. For him, all of these violations are made due to the lack of an observatory which follows closely the activities made by media houses and their regulator-CNC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faustin Ndikumana, chairman of PARCEM, an organization involved in the changes of mindset says the media observatory\u2019s objective will be to follow closely activities done by media houses and their regulator-the National Communication Council. \u201cMedia play an important role in the country\u2019s development. People give their points of view and leaders must know that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,670],"tags":[1362,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11334,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\/revisions\/11334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}