SECTOR 4 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 1.8 (2012 = 1.2, 2009 = 1.4) 4.6 Journalists and editors do not practise self-censorship in in the private broadcasting and print media. Journalists and editors practise self-censorship. After a long discussion, the panel admitted that self-censorship is “the fact of prohibiting oneself to say” all the available facts of a story, for several personal reasons, whilst ethics concern morality and its principles that recommend that we keep certain things quiet. The panel evoked several cases and examples of self-censorship. From the moment that a choice is required, the journalist might make a voluntary decision to censor himself. The panel maintains that the limit between self-censorship, censorship and ethics is at times very tight. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 106 AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER Côte d’Ivoire 2016 2.0 (2012 = 1.2, 2009 = 1.6)