the pluralist brainstorming on the quality of the written press, of the Radio and the Television and on the appropriate means of developing the national media landscape. 191. Numerous initiatives had been taken in the press, information and communication sectors to enrich and diversify the media landscape and to strengthen the measures for enhancing protection of the freedom of opinion and of expression and to reduce the digital divide in the information and communication society. Can be cited in particular: The Newspapers 192. The number of national publications and periodicals continue to increase: close to 250 national publications and about 950 foreign newspapers and magazines are distributed in Tunisia. The number of journalists is currently 973 as against 639 journalists in 1990, of whom 35% are women and 53% are university graduates. Apart from the 70 foreign correspondents who exercise their profession, 137 new publications of various horizons have appeared since 1993 up to the end of 2005. 193. The Opposition Parties have their own publications: « l-Tariq Al-Jadid » (medium of the Ettajdid Movement), « Al-Mawkif » (medium of the Progressive Democratic Party), « El-Wehdha » (medium of the Peoples’ United Party),«ElOufouk » (medium of the Liberal Social Party), « El-Watan » (medium of the Unionist Democratic Union), « Mouatinoun » (medium of the Democratic Forum for Employment and Freedoms) contribute to the animation of the national intellectual and political life. 194. To sanction this option and to offer the newspapers of he Opposition Parties the best conditions for contributing to the enrichment of the national media landscape, subventions had been granted to the newspapers of the Opposition Parties to cover part of their costs for purchasing of paper and part of their printing costs under the terms of the law n° 97-48 of the 21st July 1997 relative to the public financing of Political Parties, of the Decree n° 98-479 of 19th February 1998, establishing the forms and modalities of distributing the allowances allocated to the Political Parties and the Decree n° 2001-1496 of 22nd June 2001, fixing the amount and the modalities of allocation of the annual subvention of support to the newspapers of the Political Parties. Law n° 2006-7 of the 15th February 2006, amending the law n° 97-48 of the 21st July 1997, relative to the public funding of the Political Parties increased this subvention and the annual amount for each party had been fixed at one hundred and thirty five thousand Dinars (135,000 Dinars). 195. The promotion of information and the improvement of its message constitute a collective responsibility which is incumbent on all the Parties, to establish new traditions of objectivity and innovation in the analysis of the topics, on the one hand, and to get used to accepting criticism and opposing opinions on the other. Newspapers like « Echaâb » (weekly medium of the Tunisian General Labour Union), « Realities» (Independent Weekly), « The Time » (Independent Daily), « The Observer »(Independent Weekly), « Akhbar-El-Joumhouria » (Independent Weekly), « The Maghrebin Economist » (bimonthly) publish audacious Articles, report on information relating to non-governmental 44