Toulouse: to “reconnect with the dialogue”, Reporters Without Borders comes by bus to meet the citizens
From March 24 to April 9, Reporters Without Borders crisscrosses France by bus to meet citizens, whether in large cities or small villages, and discuss the right to information. On Wednesday March 30 in the morning, the team stopped in Toulouse.
“Are you here for the #BusRSF too?” Wednesday, March 30, the rainy weather did not provoke the motivation and the smiles of Kaïs and Dihya. The two college students are at the rendezvous on the Jules-Guesde alleys, camera at hand. Journalism for professional purposes, they are waiting for the Reporters Without Borders team whose bus has scheduled a stop in Toulouse.
Leaving on March 24 for a tour that is due to end on April 9, the #BusRSF stops in several cities in France, metropolitan cities, medium-sized towns and villages, for times of exchange with citizens around the right to information. and its future.
From these meetings, the questions asked, the expectations expressed, the proposals put forward, a white paper will then be born which will be given in particular to the next President of the Republic, to politicians and to the media, after the presidential election.
The right to information, “a right for all citizens”
“We want to renew the dialogue with the citizens,” explains Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders. “We said to ourselves: ‘Let’s try to work on something that we all have in common’, and the right to information is a right for all citizens. Try to be in a constructive logic of proposals. Rather than complaining, what do we do?
And from the six previous stages of the #BusRSF are already emerging from first observations: “We see that people are lost, in the sense that there is a real need for understanding. And a real concern about what is happening in the world, remarks Christophe Deloire There is a very high expectation, a very high demand. There could be a form of challenge to the very principle of journalism, to the values of journalism, and this is not the case. What people expect are reliable, independent and pluralistic information, and that’s quite satisfying.”