Approche critique de la tolérance administrative dans la régulation des médias audiovisuels au Cameroun

Abstract

This article proposes to highlight, in a critical approach, the tricks, practices and political uses of audiovisual regulation. Presented as a lenient attitude of the government towards illegal media, the notion is understood as an imminent danger of repression hanging over the heads of publishers. It joins the cohort of diffuse mechanisms of muzzling and control of audiovisual structures, most often legitimized by issues of peace and social stability. The analysis of the regulatory system makes it possible to understand the mechanisms and the repressive grammar as it is deployed, depending on the socio-political context, offering all the leeway sought by the powers that be to pull the strings by temporarily or permanently closing down private audiovisual communication companies deemed too critical and subversive of the establishment.