TelQuel: Morocco as It Is in the Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers of the Francophone Press

Abstract

Since 1999, Moroccan journalists of French expression have contributed to a discursive public space that reflects a communicative pact between themselves and readers. This space has developed on the peripheries of the status quo and obliges the reader and journalist to invest mutually in socially, culturally, and politically changing the contours of their society. The bond between readers and journalists dedicated to changing their country contributes to the ongoing dialogues that are represented in the journals and newspapers of the New Morocco. From inside their country, these dynamic men and women use a “globalized” French to communicate the changing contours of society to their fellow citizens, both in Morocco and abroad.¹ This global language renders the communicative space as a large continuum, reaching out to the Moroccan diaspora. The important and essential role of newspapers as keepers of history and loci of public debate is one of the most captivating aspects of the sociocultural transformations taking place at the current time in Morocco.