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Daouk: Public media bulwark of freedom, national need

NNA - The Lebanese University, Faculty of Journalism and Documentation, in Fanar organized a conference on Wednesday titled "Transition from official to public information" under the aegis of caretaker Information Minister Walid Daouk and in presence of the faculty Dean Georges Kallas and the National News Agency director Laure Sleiman Saab.



This conference shed light on the role currently played by the media in developed countries.


It explains how the official information emancipated from the control of political power to be in service of society and public interest.



In his word on the occasion, Daouk said the issues tackled in the conference highlight the growing role of social media in the context of the Arab Spring and the climate of globalization.



He reminded that Lebanon had never experienced the official media managed by power or directed by a specific ideology, as the case in some totalitarian regimes in the neighborhood of Lebanon.



"I managed to push the official media to address information objectively, without taking sides," Daouk said.



In his words, Daouk said the media, whether public or private, must comply with the rules of the profession and its ethical principles and norms.



"I'm sure that the synthesis might be learned from this conference would want to work as a unified body for freedom, the exercise of this freedom with responsibility while focusing on ethics of the profession," he added.



"I'm sure that what we may conclude of this conference is to seek working as a unified body for freedom, to exercise this freedom with responsibility while keeping in mind the ethics of the profession, based on the media honor pact.


This pact is to me the fortress of the media sector and of public freedoms of Lebanon. This country is the haven of all those who aspire freedom, democracy and living in dignity," he concluded.



=============L.W.

تابعوا أخبار الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام عبر أثير إذاعة لبنان على الموجات 98.5 و98.1 و96.2 FM

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