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The Impact Of Government Ownership And Control Of Anambra Broadcasting Service (radio) On Media Objectivity
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There is a common
saying with regards to mass media control in Nigeria and elsewhere
which has become a cliché that “he who pays the piper dictates the
tune.†This means that owners of mass media organize, channel, and
control what the media broadcast and how they broadcast it.
It is
obviously true that mass media owners exert a threatening control over
the press, whether the mass media is managed by a board of director‟s
appointment, by private owner, or by public corporation established by
the government. The media have policies set down by the board. The short
term and long term operations.
Because of this influences the
ownership, the media has become a mere vociferous tool, propaganda and
as well as indispensible instrument used by the government to make or
mark their relationship with the masses.
1.2 Statement of Research Problem
Whatever
the practice of ABS (radio) the influence of leadership and control on
gate-keeping are still present and if it is not handled well, it may
greatly impair the success of any program, so this is what the
researcher is aimed at finding.
Right programming decision can lead
to success for the radio station. In ownership, government exercise
total control of the medium or media information. It has the right to
appoint the chairman, the editors and members of the board of directors
of the body.
I countries with less degree of free press, government
has manipulated the masses using broadcasting media. Broadcasting is
volatile and its potentials are unending satisfaction.
Since ABS
radio is one of the state governments owned broadcasting media stations,
it could be involved in state government propaganda machinery like
others.
This researcher has been monitoring the quality of news and
programmes coming out on ABS radio and is disturbed by the level of
sycophantic (praise singing) on the government that negates objective
reporting. It is on this note therefore that this researcher is set out
to know whether such non-objective reporting is as a result of
government o the journalist or if there are other factors responsible on
such unethical reportage.
Government did not own and exert control
of broadcast media for its sake but for a definite purpose of using it
as a medium or tool of telling its own story the way it suits them.
Most
state owned media organizations are hand locked with credibility and
objective questions for the way they have handled information
dissemination for the government at the expense of the opposition and
indeed the people. For this reason, media audience is today known to
take state owned media messages with a pinch of salt. And because ABS
radio is a culprit in this issue, the researcher has chosen it for her
study.
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