L’espace public médiatique face à l’influence du champ politique : Cadre juridique encadré et service public mitigé –l’exemple de Télé-Congo

This article is proposed to study the question of the legal status of the public television in (Africa) in connection to the notion of the media public service focusing on the Congolese public channel. Being based on the analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews with professional actors of this media and associations and by analyzing two specific programs of this public television at the rate of three numerous per programs. We observed in the results of this investigation that there is an unsuitability between the informational content of programs, the understanding of the public service by professionals and the legal texts of this channel which seem to be hybrid and not well-structured and do not fit in with the logic of the media public service. Indeed, this channel is rather divided between a primordial political imperative linked to the popularization of the governmental speech and a theoretical mission of the public service