medias24.com's 'Study': When Science Serves the Press Release

Oumar Diarra — Bamako, Mali — 2026-09-05

medias24.com (Moroccan news website) announces a "study" said to demonstrate "the ideological bias of Algeria's public media." A study! One pictures researchers in white coats, methodologies, samples... Then you look for the university, the laboratory, the peer-reviewed journal. You find nothing. What you find is a press release, dressed up as science, commissioned to say what Rabat wants to hear.

Because that is the whole art of bias: accusing others of having one. Morocco's media devote hundreds of articles a year to Algeria, with an angle so unwavering it would make a metronome jealous. And Algeria is the "biased" one? If medias24.com is hunting for ideological media, it need only look in a mirror — though it should be warned: the mirror has no bias.

Algeria's "public media" have one unforgivable flaw in Rabat's eyes: they defend their country's position, as every public media outlet in the world does. The difference is that Algeria's position rests on UN resolutions, while Morocco's rests on commissioned studies.

Algeria does not need flattering studies to stand on the right side of the law. medias24.com, for its part, needs studies to believe it does. That is the whole difference between a certainty and an anxiety.