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The Impact Of Government Ownership And Control Of Anambra Broadcasting Service (radio) On Media Objectivity
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1.3 Objective of the Study
Based on this seemingly observation, the objective of this study includes:
1. To find out how objective the ABS (radio) discharges its duty in the light of government ownership and control.
2. To determine whether ABS (radio) is involved in sycophantic reporting.
3. To find out how government influence on the station affect people‟s patronage.
4. To determine the pattern of recruitment of journalist into the organization.
1.4 Research Questions
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number of questions have been raised and answers to such questions
definitely shall provide solution to the problem of government misuse of
ABS (radio). The belief of the researcher is that the following
research questions will provide focus and direct her attention to major
issues in the identified problems and they are:
1. To what level has government ownership and control influence affected objective reporting on ABS (radio)?
2. How does ABS (radio) practice sycophantic reporting?
3. How true is it that government influence on the station affect people‟s patronage?
4. To what extent does journalist‟s recruitment into the ABS (radio) station comply with the standard principles?
1.5 Research Hypotheses
From the above mentioned research questions, some hypotheses shall be tested in this study. They are as follows:
H1: Government ownership and control influence affects objective reporting on ABS (radio).
H0: Government ownership and control influence do not affect objective reporting on ABS (radio).
H2: ABS (radio) is involved in sycophantic reporting.
H0: ABS (radio) is not involved in sycophantic reporting.
1.6 Scope of the Study
The
scope of this study is limited to only accessing the impact which
government of Anambra State influence on ownership and control of its
radio arm is having on the journalist objective reporting. It does not
cover other areas of the states broadcast media organization or states
print media. It only discusses radio, taking an aspect of negative
reporting which audience is alleging that emanates due to control
influence. And that is what this study wants to investigate.
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