Last Monday, RTBF, the French-speaking public radio and television station, decided to broadcast Donald Trump’s inauguration speech with a two-minute delay. The public channel has in fact applied a particularity of French-speaking Belgium, namely the possibility of establishing a “media sanitary cordon”: the media refuse to receive or broadcast live parties or speeches deemed undemocratic. What is it about?
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Trump’s delayed speech: in Belgium, the controversy over the media “cordon humaine” becomes political
