Private Written Press in Ivory Coast

With the "boom" in the private print media in the 1990s, it was thought that C te d'Ivoire had given itself the means to develop its nascent democracy through the return of a multi-party system. Unfortunately, more than three decades later, Ivorians are still looking for a credible, independent and responsible private print media. In other words, they paint a gloomy picture in which journalists and private print media owners don't get a good press. But privately-owned newspapers carry the seeds of their own destruction and those of the peril of the Ivorian nation. What good is a newspaper if it has no readers? This question begs another. Created to consolidate and accompany democracy in our country, privately-owned newspapers today represent a serious threat to the very survival of democracy.