A former army chief. Of the headlines on aljazeera the listening post as they. Swear every. Right. To be that. They. Have no option but to stare at receipt of. The freedom of the media i did a quick political situation. Hello richard guess what if youre at the listening post here are some of the developments were tracking this week kenya the election story from last year that run these in the ranks and the media now caught in the middle view were the where you tube puts labels on news videos in the us produced by state funded Media Outlets its back to the drawing board for the french president whose media strategy was due for a change and tone deaf advertising at the super bowl kenya is in the midst of a political. Power struggle and the countrys Media Outlets are at the heart of the story when Opposition Leader raul odinga held a mock inauguration ceremony last week declaring himself the peoples president he was out to challenge the legitimacy of president. Who won an election held late last year that odeh boycotted saying the vote was rigged the can you have a government wants to put the election story behind it get on with governing and deny odinga the oxygen of publicity so would order the kenyan media to ignore the alternative inauguration and when three privately owned t. V. Channels defied those orders and tried to broadcast the event the authorities pulled the plug on journalists cried foul of the governments heavy handed approach but its not like the kenyan media dont have some credibility issues of their own our starting point this week is nairobi. At some point somebody in the kenyatta government presumably the president himself would have made this calculation what would be worse. A piece of political theater televised divide to put the legitimacy of the government in question or. Denying the media the right to broadcast the earth sets of rules countrywide went through and into the way the signal that sends the perception it creates. It might have seemed like a good idea in the short term as a as a show of force but what it is what it does in the long term is it says we are going to undermine the publics right to information for the sake of six short term power and thats a real threat to democracy and i think if they hadnt given it as much attention as they did it would have just been a footnote in the political history of the country the first thing is that. The government does not feel that it is bound by the constitution and by a lot. More force losing. Media from when. Government came in pretty much behaved like this government can be their friend they thought i would buy them some protection. And what theyre now learning is that all they have is the state. Of kenyas president ial election should have been settled five months ago august eighth two thousand and seventeen the incumbent who can tell was declared the winner by ten points override the whole day and. Challenge the result in court saying the Electoral Commissions computers have been hacked the results tampered with. The Supreme Court ruled with a saying that by denying the court access to its system the Commission Left the judges with no choice they nullified the Election Results and ordered another vote for october. The second round played out like a farce pulled out saying the fix was in a key member of the Electoral Commission fled the country citing political interference and death voter turnout was less than half of what it was in round one and the Electoral Commission declared kenyatta the winner with more than one thousand eight percent of the phone. To most civilized countries when the Electoral Commission gives that is that is that is out and everybody accepts it and the country moves on in can now we have a very very Different Society because its been passed the sun is always a question mark what did they tell us did they hide something and i think the media finds itself in that space. Most notably after the election of late two thousand and seven the results were disputed and the violence lasted for months more than a thousand were killed more than half a million displaced refugees of an electoral after. The causes of that violence were many and complex however the kenyan media got much of the blame. During the Campaign Television stations had aired in century political ads in breach of their own regulations small local radio stations then incited the postelection violence by broadcasting hate speech stung by that criticism many kenyan news outlets changed their ways toned down their content and started playing it safe. Is absolutely untrue that we are the ones who caused this problem violence had a whole sort of other causal issues but thats to me is that moment in which the media started to take a step back from directly criticize the state the politicians and giving up the space i call it the we want peace narrative so between two thousand and seven and twenty thirteen the media was in this phase where they were thinking ok how do we do the next general election without being blamed and so that the media was then criticized in twenty thirty and i think bradley is so far havent been too careful. That vote in two thousand and thirteen was the first to elect a president can yatta by years and his government had passed a new media law giving itself the power to find news outlets a lot of those outlets opposed and won the us based committee to protect journalists described as draconian the kenyan media might have seen that law coming earlier that year on the one hundredth day of his presidency kenyatta summoned media owners and their executives to a breakfast meeting the government will allow journalists from media houses be embedded to about from the government to scrutiny by the media as one of the president s allies in the media puts it can jada simply spelled out the role he expected journalists to play so when the president was asked. And the question is that we should not be adverse or even assume you have the public watching them even as you said their gender their gender should be adversely remaining the media should not make us on the position but he should play the role of being for the state that is the missing that the president is trying to to to to get out because the media in kenya house. Always believed that all of the opposition parties president. Earlier today so to write a new chapter in Government Relations with the media so its fine he can call the me. What he is i jendayi but then nobody has to be able to discuss their bottoms and critic ward the president is saying i dont know what happens at the time that the media was called in the government was engaged in order to cause. Ration. Which is to the northeast. Where it had rounded up upwards of five hundred people it was just picking up people off the street there were suspected terrorists not us or passed on in the media took the opportunity during the outbreath to ask about that operation from this media breakfast with the state what they did was they escalated the we want peace. So well youre the media youre not a p. R. Agency youre the media your job is to keep their feet in the fire to keep them honest thats the core concept of a Fourth Estate that keep people honest and when they decide to go in bed with the executive and become an extension of the executive if you think about it as a table its a table with three legs you know how is it supposed to stem. This story comes down to questions of legitimacy the can you got to government had its legitimacy challenged by riley in the most public of way the media tried to broadcast that ceremony perhaps hoping to regain the legitimacy they squandered last year falling short as election watchdogs and going soft on the can you have to govern. If the kenyan media thought that would land them in the governments good graces and then what happened last week proved they made a big mistake and going to block the way they did would have come as a rude awakening. Even isnt been seen in this country where all the Major Television stations are shut down because of the story not that they come but that they wouldnt have that this is one owns the most vibrant media spaces on the continent and i didnt need to hold to that this was a bad scene its done im well a villain to wake up to the usual flame front media professional media that one cannot see how the shutdown was just some sort of wake up call that hes unveiled this is set up between the dish should be good for forever. Theyre going to wake up call. For discussing other media stories that are on our radar today with one of our producers tarakan off the tarik you tube has just introduced a new feature that will alert users when theyre watching news content that is funded by governments whats the point of this yeah this is the latest in a series of measures by social Media Companies to try and counsel misinformation and propaganda online but its already proving contentious each of the decisions how pieces better understand the sources of news content they posted the screenshot from radio free asia which is funded by the us congress as an example. Heres the problem that you tube will not differentiate between news outlets that are publicly funded editorially independent and outlets that take funding and editorial direction from a government u. S. Public broadcaster p. B. S. Isnt happy about that if it gets a small amount of its funding from the Us Government the rest from private donations and it doesnt want to be labelled a state broadcaster which it could be under the new rules so whos going to be seeing these labels which news outlets stand to be affected so the moment its only you tube videos that are being played in the us but plenty of global outlets are likely to be affected including the u. K. s b. B. C. China c. G. To you and this one i was there which is funded by the qatari government but i think its fair to say that this move primarily targets outlets like the russian funded r. T. Theres been a bit of hysteria in the us over russian attempts to influence the two thousand and sixteen election and r. T. Has been thing go out on that so i asked r. T. For its reaction to this move and they said congratulations to you tube on labeling our content with the basic info weve always made nine peculiar though that in its hierarchy of broadcasters some are more government funded than others the other story youve been looking into is the intensification of the crackdown against certain news websites in egypt whats the story there yes were starting at the beginning with this story in may last year the government began blocking access to dozens of news websites among them one of the few independent Media Outlets left in egypt madame asa according to a kyra based ngo the blacklist has grown to some four hundred ninety six different platforms and that includes news outlets human rights organizations blogs and v. P. N. Some blocked Media Outlets like madame asa for example have been using a google publishing tool called am accelerated mobile pages which allows objections to see madam authors content on their mobiles New York Times and c. N. N. Use them as well but now thats been blocked to what reasoning what justification is the government offering for this if any of us do. Tristen thing theres been no comment from the government not now nor back in may when this crackdown first began its worth mentioning though that egypt is gearing up for an election next month and the current president i defer to him fifty have pretty much snuffed out all his competition ok thanks to her during last years president ial Election Campaign emanuel was the darling of the french news media his promises of a new world and a new french revolution seemed tailor made for the times sort of macros image as the politician offering a cure for frances stagnant economy he swept to power sixty six percent of the vote demolishing his opponent from the far right however his romance with the media has since turned sour the new president s reluctance to engage with journalists has made him appear loof distant and has made some contentious policies such as spending cuts and an overhaul of labor laws that much harder to sell so mark has been changing his approach making himself more available listening post Christina Martinez now from paris on how emanuel micros a revamped media strategy is going down with frances troublesome and opinionated for the state. Its a classic political take. The news media on your way to power make time for them smart for the cameras theyre the ones who are sworn into Office Develop as a version two journalist who did this is the world and he dont. Know how more of his removal and we very rarely see macro release a palace is quite an impregnable fortress. Does not host luncheons with journalists like his predecessor frost while on duty he stopped doing all of that theres never an off the record moment hes a president who is always on the radical and the on the but there are. Macro. I arrived at the palace having been traumatized by what had happened to his predecessor at the hands of the media. As minister of finance michael witnessed that from up close i must have thought not me but his solution was to build a pearl in the wall service or be a tween him and journalist last year was directly on at least. The first breaking that was my crohns mobile phone transfer our lawns made his move on number of available to journalists that friends of them could contact the former president any time my current didnt want to play the game that way and from his earliest days in office he made it clear which journalists he wanted covering his story at the outset a man one might close seemed like he was part of president part as i meant editor. For instance only a few days into his mandate the president decided to travel to mali he then contacted certain Media Outlets to let them know he only wanted journalists who specialize in defense and Foreign Policy not political Journalist Group this caused quite a stir among Media Outlets he rightly felt that the president should not be allowed to choose which journalist to have by fide it was his first shows. And so the point you had. A lot of journalists think you must never talks but thats not true he talks with quite a lot of journalists there mainly for a while and that annoys french journalists a lot but he talked to c. N. N. Mr president welcome to the program and when he went to africa he spoke to two hundred students here to do something. Even listen to a location that is available to live. So its not that he doesnt speak its just that he talks to others the media here have no choice but to use bits of these encounters he said as director mark. Creek which he has for the movie the human crumbs choice of words is never a coincidence he often uses english to. To make our planet great again. Milly fake news and its very disrupting for us as french journalists and also for french people we feel disconnected we are not the target of his messages he is targeting Business Executives and Decision Makers worldwide i dont want him. Within three months of taking office having won sixty six percent of the vote so i shopped sliding his bonus his proposed labor reform some tax cuts were making the wrong kinds of headlines so my condi would most politicians who are having trouble with journalists he hired one would know was a pretty a business journalist was his new communications director. In the public. Eye cause it to make it. Simple gauzy pitch only loaded. Instead of a zip it made room. For magazines like the glossy perry match and the conservative liberal. On the t. V. Side he paired his balls with silly and you know a celebrity host who is more fun actor comedian than a journalist if he really made yak you my confidence Media Outlets to have a direct impact on the public eye like how do you manage which like covering the president ial. Who the extremely popular with young people. Because you dont. Because you dont. Fully volitionally of course when my own coffee and i dont know i live on t. V. The political journalists are choking because they keep trying to reach the president and in fact of the waiting for a callback to do i thought. It was all. Five months before my corps relented and granted his first french t. V. Interview he didnt go to france state broadcaster he chose the largest privately owned channel instead scotland africa also said but just because some qualms. But for this is. Where he finally did speak to state t. V. Mccaw and the journalist. The strolled around the release a palace it struck french journalist and audiences as a very american style of light touch interviewing let. Use has been a major asset in his political rise he realized he couldnt present himself in the same way as former president s he needed to do something in keeping with his new world ideal so he invited someone from his generation they met as two young people one a president of the other a journalist with the most important audience in from he decided to act like they do want to merican shows american was appalled. I think macron tricks. How do you conduct a meaningful interview when youre strolling through the leigh sales corridors in dim light you cant shop questions in that kind of setting in the. Middle of the state to more than. An acceptance by accepting this woman. Was forced to go in with a series of softball questions it looked like a concession from the press and it added fuel to the fire regarding the medias relationship with the president i dont know a couple of it usually is miniscule i mean sure more like a shot when she no should happen are always you know well for. A man way back or no longer give strange journalists the silent treatment but their relationship is far from call. Can you talk a little bit to the to the you know. He has criticised previous president s for being too close to journalists accused the french media of narcissism and has reportedly called the state broadcaster not only. The shame of the republic. Micron has made it clear theyre in for an overhaul among the bad ones being thank you latest there is restructuring and externalization that means putting more t. V. Production was into the hands of independent Media Companies but theres also talk of big budget cuts media analysts say the proposed reforms could result in Less Public Service journalism and eventually fewer people hold him how to account to build a more for instance the government plans to train the amount of. Policies get on t. V. This could mean about seventy percent of the time because of the crumbs in part to your motion and only thirty percent of the time goes to all the others this could be a game changer but for now we know very little about this reform which we shouldnt prejudge the president dedicated to peace throughout the whole history of french president s and broadcasters whether with meter or she rock. A bit less with all launches has been about keeping public radio under their control i think hes really old world in that he thinks he should have complete control over public broadcasting as a boat to me. When it comes to the media intentions are not all that different to his predecessors even if the tactics on the rhetoric are if the french president gets away with it his socalled revolution will be televised his way. Finally the media extravaganza that is the super bowl american footballs annual finale. The showcase for advertisers they pay up to five Million Dollars for a thirty second spot ram trucks ponied up this year and used an unlikely pitch man Martin Luther king through extracts from one of the speeches back in one thousand sixty eight the company somehow failed to foresee that the appropriation of the words of an African American civil rights leader to sell cars would not go down well and its the n. F. L. Where hundreds of players have been taking a need to protest the treatment of africanamericans at the hands of the police in short the optics were brutal heres some of the ad in question alongside another version subvert tyson by Current Affairs magazine which uses different extracts of the same speech to make a rather different point about the shamelessness of the Advertising Industry well see you next time youre at the listening. If you want to be. One of the one who. Will soften picked on by advertisers you know. 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