The Mass Media Ownership Policies And Ethical Problems Of Nigerian Journalist

The Mass Media Ownership Policies And Ethical Problems Of Nigerian Journalist

Chapter One

Preface Of Study

Background Of Study

Media as a watchdog and the glass of the nation perform pivotal places in the society and as well it’s influence in its editorial policy. In trying to understand what mass middles, lazar field and Kendal contend that mass is truly applicable to the medium of radio for it further than other media in reaching all groups of the population invariant ’’ but before we do with this work, we will include not only the mechanical bias that transmit and occasionally, dispatches( television cameras, radio microphones, publishing press) but also the institution that use these machines to transmit dispatches. When we talk about the mass media of TV, radio, review, magazine, sound recoding and film, we will be pertaining to the people, the programs the association and the technology that go into products mass communication. Dominick( 1987)

For the purpose of courvinence in this work we shall limit the fem. Mass media to those opencast that posses the capacity to reach league cult contemporaneously, this, also leaves us with the TV medium, The radio medium, the brokers media. TV media is fairly proprietor also the radio and point, but it posses peculiar. Characters that place on it a distracter, especially in development exposure the two characteristic frequently described as television advantages are the visual and the followership qualification. To gratify assess the performance of TV as a means to an end; similar factor is the social contest within what communication occurs. It’s acceptable to wear that in Nigeria, for illustration, the number of TV station sine independence has grown to nearly thirty- six stations( both stake, civil and intimately possessed bones ); but these can not be equaled to exposure and the use of which TV programmers have been put to, by Nigerian media followership. Inspire of the below numbers that appear encoring, by the third world Nigeria situation is emissary a far cry from the UMES Co minima’s norms of mass media establishment and use. UNES Co stipulates that every Country should meet up with what it considers as the minimum norms of mass media demand. Radio is another medium in third world country because it really reaches the millions. In Nigeria for illustration the use of radio a source of information is truly evidences indeed among neural residers who make up maturity of the country’s population( okunna, 1992, sob monster and sogbamu 1984, further 1981). The radio, no mistrustfulness is enjoying gather fashionability especially among the pastoral population because of its reach and also because of its bluing before to the media scene than TV whether reach alone can actually amount to proper use of the radio medium will again call back the issue of the relationship between communication dispersion and communication event since radio is extensively diffused and readily accessible indeed in supplemental areas, it can gauge large followership at low cost. And because it reaches moral pastoral people in the third world than any other medium. Its implicit to bring about increases in knowledge and give provocation for shift in practices is considerable. And for it to meet media pretensions, it should be used in such a way that it’s near, indeed, veritably near to the people. A situation where some people are cut off radio reach, as it the case in Nigeria is to san the least inferior. In using the radio, there’s need for physical decentralization and democratization of the radio media moving the radio media structure to where they can make further direct contort with a lesser chance of the media followership and the power should bere-structured to allow for the participatory communication approach to be bandied latterly in full. publish medium is another part of mass media; it involves published accoutrements like review, magazine journals, bulletins books books etc. Although the whole range of published material are important aspects of the print media. The review and the magazines have come to enjoy lesser fashionability when the print media are considered as means for mass rallying and development nothing brings out more easily the significance of review than Jefferson’s preference ‘ were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without review, or review without government, I shouldn’t vacillate a moment to prefer the ultimate( Jefferson 1987) the foremost forerunner of the ultramodern review began in demitasse as long as 500 announcement. Since also the review has under one a lot of changes to appear in the shape it does to day. The review has also mushroomed each over the world.

Compass Of The Study

This study would essay to explain the mass media, power programs and ethical problems of the Nigerian intelligencer.

Statement Of The Exploration Problem

Grounded on the exploration made, backing of the media house, its control and reclamation of its top staff have formed the influential factors consequent upon the editorial policy of the media house since the proprietor( s) of the media house generally does or do the afore- stated factors. The media power have thus in some ways told the editorial policy and this has posed problems to journalism as a trade. In this case, the tract jotting has to serve with the policy frame and editorial principles. Nothing runs the editor down as having the option of either doing it the way the policy dictates or he resigns or else sacked.

Influence of media power on editorial policy have made numerous journals to collapse in operations and have also made them to lose their readership grip. In the case of a host journals, as a intimately possessed review, if it doesn’t have so numerous programs that generally affect its readership except that its front and back runner stories are centered on Imo state. frequently times, it faces the stiff competition of the public and other original journals. Again, people from other state would always see the purchase of the review as a waste since it doesn’t generally spread its tentacles. According to the staff of “ host review ”, the publisher( proprietor) brings to product room when it’s formerly time for product. This detainments product of the paper.

Objects Of The Study

This work is aimed at largely bullyragging the ways by which media power influences editorial policy of review and ethical problems of Nigeria intelligencer.

To give same information on the( grounded on exploration influence) tract policy has gone in destroying journalistic principles. Vis- à- vis the consequence of similar case.

It would also act as a inspection Turing factor and would go as important as proffering result forwards checking these excises.

Significance Of Study

To use this woke to attract some legislation amends and stop completely about friend, which isn’t for the good of Nigerian society.

Exploration Questions

In this study, an attempt would be sufficiently made to answer the following questions. Does the media power factor influence tract policy of a private( review) medium? Can the job of the journalism be used to check the influence of media power on editorial policy?

Exploration Suppositions

HI Media power factor influences editorial policy of a private medium.

HO Media power factor can not impact editorial policy of a private medium.( Like host review).

H2 Job security of the intelligencer in private review house can be guaranteed.

HO Job security of the intelligencer in private review house can not, be guaranteed. H3 Ethics of journalism can be used to check the influence of the media power on the editorial policy.

Defination Of Terms

In this area, certain crucial word will be explained into abstract and operation description.

1. MEDIA OWNERSHIP PATTERN The act of seething up or establishing a medium by a person or group of heartstrings and or the government.

2. Tract CONTENT A companion for the publication of stories in review or magazines. It’s the path a review elects to follow as it answers the two introductory question what shall we publish? How shall we publish?