Impact Of Ownership Structure On The Objectivity Of Private Broadcasting Stations In Nigeria

Impact Of Ownership Structure On The Objectivity Of Private Broadcasting Stations In Nigeria

Abstract

The assertion that says he who pays the pipers dictates the tune agreed more with this study because there are lots of government controls and influences on Nigerian intelligencers especially those working with the state media. Government dictates to intelligencers what they should and shouldn’t broadcast. It’s believed that utmost of the government media intelligencers have been turned to their clerk and public relations while the government has also turned media to her extension of the ministry of information that can not but support her conditioning dogmatically. The check system was espoused with the use of 100 questionnaires out of which 90 were returned upon which the analysis was grounded. Despite the fact that private media power have lots of influence on the neutrality of their media yet numerous cult still prefer them to government media which they described as government megaphone or government propaganda tool to wisecrack the public. It’s thus recommended that media possessors shouldn’t allow the marketable interest to drive them from the media social responsibility anticipated of it in society. Media possessors should allow it hand exercise professionalism in their day to day conditioning to boost and maintain the media neutrality and credibility of the media because “ source is the news ”i.e credibility of the information will be determined by the credibility of the media.