Impact Of Print Media As Indices Of Sports Development In Nigeria (A Case Study Of Sun Newspaper)

Impact Of Print Media As Indices Of Sports Development In Nigeria (A Case Study of Sun Newspaper)

Chapter One

Preface

Background To The Study

Sports was firstly a recreational exertion, but with the preface of fiscal and material benefits and an attendant honour to it, the number of actors, the number of events and the struggle for palm have introduced high position politics into it. Consequent upon the anticipated prices, fraud, irregularities and shafts have overshadowed the system. still, a lot of people and groups are now interested in knowing about sporting events. Institutions, dates, time and place of similar events come matters of interest. They inversely raise a question about once bones and indeed the plans for the future.

therefore, information and mass mindfulness come primary in working this hunt for information and knowledge. A special unit or field in the world of journalism takes it upon itself to report sporting events to the public.

The goods of these reports both in shaping the geste of the public and operation of sports in general demand specialization and chops in sports reporting.

This exploration in admitting these data, examines the impact of print media in sport development in Nigeria. Sports were a recreational miracle till the early 1930’s when the first world sports jubilee was held. The processes of selection among different nations led to stronger and further competitive sports among nations and mainlands. therefore, competitive sports serve as an integrating force, and source of socio- political connections. As an incitement and provocation to individualities and nations contending to the throne, fiscal benefits, transnational honours, merit awards were introduced. Sports bodies similar as Federation International de Football Association( FIFA), Confederation of African Football( CAF) and National Food Authority( NFA) were established and employment openings created.

Accordingly, colorful sporting conditioning, orders, pressure groups and interests surfaced. Every day, these groups and interests press or seek to know about the processes and dynamics of these sporting conditioning, presumably with a view to save and/ or influence certain marvels.

The mass media fill this responsibility gap as they report these conditioning and give the necessary information demanded to all interested parties far and wide. BeazellW.P. observed this when he wrote, “ sports news comes nearer than anything differently I know of, to the common denominator of news. There’s presumably more universal anthology interest in the sports runners than in any of the other corridor of the modem review. ”

This duty has great influence on the entire socio-artistic, political, and profitable structure of nations. Sport narrative began nationalistic conditioning pressures, fanaticism, and gangsterism in sports. Because of its wider reach, it has come the surest, though the dear, means of advertising products, services and programmes. It has yielded millions for their organizers and made numerous judges, and observers transnational personalities icons .

The struggle for heteronomy among nations has inversely been extended to sports. Considering the influence of sports reporting, necessary reporting accoutrements and Concrete data are demanded for quality and objective reporting.

They’re interested in the means and styles of data gathering. Generally, they gain the data through particular observation, press association, publications and mass media.

With the preface of fiscal and material benefits and an attendant honour to sport, the number of actors, the number of events and the struggle for palm has introduced high position politics into it. Consequent upon the anticipated prices, fraud, irregularities and shafts have overshadowed the system. still, a lot of people and groups are now interested in knowing about sporting events. Institutions, dates, time and place of similar events come matters of interest. They inversely raise a question about once bones and indeed the plans for the future.

The sports journalists gather, process, interpret and publish applicable news particulars demanded by interested parties. This responsibility puts them on the move all the time, hunting for data that will be of immense value to the public. This paper, thus,x-rays association Structures of sports reporting, responsibility of sports journalists and specialized for effective sports reporting.

Statement Of The Problem

This exploration is probing on the part of print media in sport development in Nigeria, it’s a know fact that sport has come part and parcel of youth’s life especially manly who spend lots of their precious time in watching sport conditioning on TV. While, latterly in another day meet at the colorful journals stands scanning, reading and buying sport papers. Despite both fact that history news is said to be a banal news in journalism sphere but refers is the case when it come into sport.

Since the turnout of compendiums is emotional, the paper exanimate Sun Newspaper being suitable to promote sport development through this high readership.

Interest in sport conditioning among the Nigeria youth as redounded to the exigency of colorful journals which focuses on sport conditioning similar as Sun Newspaper, soccer,e.t. c and colorful foreign sport class journals similar as Man U, Chelsea.e.t. c

still, is review suitable to develop sport conditioning supplicate covering original, nation, and transnational sport conditioning?

Objects Of The Study

1. To know the donation of print media to sport development

2. To examine the challenges facing print media in reporting sport conditioning

3. To know the rates of the quality of sport journalists in sport development

4. To analysis the functions of sport office in every print outfit

5. To study the aspect of sport which print media give precedence?

6. To know why sport conditioning are generally placed at the reverse cover of both the review and magazine.

Exploration Questions

1. Does print media contribute to sport development in Nigeria?

2. What are the challenges facing sport journalists and sport office in reporting sport conditioning?

3. Why do Nigeria Sport journalists pay further attention to foreign sport conditioning than original sport?

4. Do sport suckers enjoy review sport stories than electronic media?

5. How do sport suckers encourage sport journalists?

Significance Of The Study

There’s no mistrustfulness about the fact that work like this will be devisee to some set of people and reality. Meanwhile, this work on the part of print media in sport development will profit the following people, intelligencers, media possessors, sport suckers, government and unborn experimenters.

intelligencers Sport pens and sport editors will at the end of this work realize the significance of their work in entertaining the people this will make them do more.

Media possessors The exploration findings will enables media possessors to consecrate reasonable quantum of plutocrat, outfit and other logistics to support their sport office.

Government government at all situations will see reasons for developing original sport so that original sport will be given further precedence than the foreign bones . While government should make available some important contrivance for sport reporting.

unborn Experimenter Experimenters who’ll be exploring on this or related Research will find the work intriguing and as a reference point.

Compass Of The Study

The compass of the study is limited to the part of the print media in sports development in Nigeria within the environment of Sun Newspaper. Although, the introductory ideal of the design is to examine the impact of print media in sport development in Nigeria, this can’t be effectively studied without considering the donation Sun Newspaper has made to the development of sport in Nigeria.

Limitations Of The Study

The study concentrates substantially on influence of media power on the professionalism especially programmes and contents credibility and neutrality of Sun Newspaper. These factors will be linked up with the absolute power the proprietor of melodies media has on intelligencers and news editors, because he who pay the pipers mandate the melodies.

Time Time constraint has posed a lot of limitations to this work as it took me a lot of time to gather enough literature accoutrements while it was stressful to travel to different places.

Finance shy finance for this design is another interference there was no enough plutocrat to browse considerably for the demanded accoutrements .

Accoutrements at present there was little literature accoutrements available for this work as experimenters weren’t really concentrate on this aspect.

still, despite the difficulties facing by course of this exploration, positive result were achieved.

Description Of The Terms

Role This means the donation, impact or simply put as the functions of print media in sport development.

review This is a published publication of loose folded wastes containing news, announcements, sport, and correspondencee.t. c

Sport Conditioning These are games or competitive exertion played outside and involving physical exertion,e.g. justice, football, contendinge.t.c for the purpose of entertainment.