THE WRITTEN PRESS AND ELECTRONIC PRESS REGULATORY AUTHORITY BETWEEN INDEPENDENCE AND DEPENDENCE IN LIGHT OF LAW NO. 23-19
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Abstract
The Algerian legislator explicitly acknowledged the independence of the authority to control the written press and electronic journalism as an independent administrative authority, as this characteristic symbolizes the escape of this authority from any form of administrative control, which means that the independence of the authority to control the written press and electronic journalism find its guarantees in one of them is organic and the other is functional. But when reflecting on the legal texts organized by it as a body that was entrusted with controlling the activities of the written press and electronic journalism, it concludes that this independence is relative that raises several questions and interpretations about the extent to which the legislator recognizes it, whether it relates to the organic or functional side, which made this characteristic relative and restricted by the executive, which makes it dependent on it.
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