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Media House, Professionals Not Familiar With Media Ethics
BY KTM Metro Reporter
October 19, 2011: most of the media houses and professionals in Nepal don’t know the media ethics and codes of conduct according to the report titled ‘Media Landscape in Nepal 2011’. "All media houses need to come forward to create general awareness of media ethics, and they should develop their own codes of conduct as per the broad guidelines of Federation of Nepalese Journalists and Press Council Nepal," ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today quotes the ‘Media Landscape in Nepal 2011’.
"The Press Council Nepal has not been effective to implement the code of conduct and ethics in the media houses," said Tanka Dulal: one of the members of the research team.
A joint team of Nepal Press Institute and Management Innovation, Training and Research Academy (MITRA) has conducted the research study on this matter following the UNESCO/IPDC Media Development Indicators (MDI).
The levels of public trust and confidence in the media are hard to quantify. Assessments are often subjective or dependent upon inadequate data. In addition polls often show declining trust in the media precisely when the media are taking on powerful and popular icons or beliefs according the findings of the study.
"The existing Press and Publications Act has some provisions to curtail the freedom of expression and misuse of the exceptional provisions by the regulatory authority has been one of the major problems of media development," ‘The Rising Nepal’ quotes the study report.
The regulatory system for broadcasting is not sufficiently conducive to freedom of expression, pluralism and diversity of media as it falls short of international standards and best practices.
