France: : Audiovisual media handling of terrorist attacks: CSA delivers its decisions

• Autores: Amélie Blocman
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 13-14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 11 February 2015, five weeks after the terrorist attacks in France, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) delivered its decisions on the way in which television channels and radio stations handled coverage of the attacks (see IRIS 2015-2/18). After analysing approximately five hundred hours of programmes, the CSA has announced that it found 36 breaches of the CSA Code, 15 of which justified the issue of a warning. Orders to comply have been issued in respect of the other 21 more serious breaches. However, none of the sanctions the CSA may impose under Article 42 of the Act of 30 September 1986, such as reading out a communiqué on the air or the imposition of a fine, have been implemented.