Can we consider Media as the fourth power in Morocco?

Idriss BEKOUCHI
COM 1302-01
Dr. IBAHRINE Mohammed

Can we consider Media as the fourth power in Morocco?
In order to consider Media or anything else as a fourth power in Morocco, it should influence the population, and it should be considered by the population as a way of getting information. Nowadays, we have 43 per cent of illiteracy in Morocco, this is why, I think that we can not consider media as a fourth power in our country, since illiterate people cannot use all kinds of media; thus, only one category of media can be used by those persons which is the broad cast media because everyone can understand, rely, and get influenced by this kind of information given in TV, Radio, and so on. For the two other categories of media which are: social media, and printed media they can not be used by 43 per cent of Moroccans since these media are respectively Internet for social media and newspapers, books, magazines for the printed media. Finally we can understand that media cannot be considered as the fourth power in Morocco since only few people get influenced by these, this is due to the high number of illiterate people.