Nepal Media: Tasks ahead of FNJ new captain

Telegraph Nepal

Average Nepali media swings to the tune of political parties to which they, as is being presumed, were affiliated. Not all but a sizeable sector of the media in Nepal were either run under the dictates of the preferred political parties or at best pen their stories as per the instructions of the foreign powers who provide under table funding.

Thus it is only but natural that the Nepali media has nothing as such which could be taken as an independent identity.

The decay is clear.

Yet some high flying media men claim that they were holier than the rest. What could be more pathetic than such expressions? Cheat of their own nation is in progress which is why Nepali nationalism, if it exists at all in any Nepali heart more so in the present day media sector, is waning at a fast speed. The result is there for all to see.

Same on us.

This bodes ill for this nation that is already a fractured one on political lines.

With our four decades plus experience in this sector, and that too an uninterrupted one, what we could observe is just a sham.  We at this paper feel more often than not as to why we jumped into such a profession that is nearly corrupt and a deceptive one? Though we have not a perfect and suitable answer to our own question, however, while jumping into this domain we thought that we are here to serve the nation and the people.

How far we served the people and the nation is not a matter to be decided by us. We leave the entire judgment to our august readers. We are open for any comments that may be in the pipeline against us. We will be more than pleased to listen to what is being talked about us. We want to be open and frank. Comments are thus awaited eagerly.

But one thing we would just like to tell our readers that we have served the nation at all times. We served the people and dared to convey their messages of where it should have been in effect. But yet we don't claim that we succeeded in our pious mission. Perhaps we were made to fail because of the deep penetration of party elements and some fifth columnists that we have in abundance in this sector.

We thus now believe that money and that too under table money weighs more than one's love and honor for one's own motherland. This is our conclusion. Some exceptions could not be denied. Some great souls are still there whom we think were more nationalist than what we claim for ourselves.

Self praise can't be a recommendation as such.

We remained the witness to three Kings. We at this paper observed the functioning style of King Mahendra, King Birendra and King Gyanendra-now a commoner like us by default.

For us all were same in that the Kings preferred to listen being praised and thus only those media men were awarded with "secret" financial assistances or for that matter decorated with medals who talked very high of the Kings.

We refrained from such acts and thus were ever neglected and ignored by the powers that be then and continue to remain sidelined. No qualms. Nothing to panic. We take these phenomenon in a light manner.

Now to come back to the point.

 

Nepali media has very freshly received a new Lieutenant, Mr. Shiva Gaunley-Koirala as the President of the Nepalese Federation of Journalists. He is an able personality. We know that he is an experienced media man and expect that he would do all he can to regain the lost prestige of Nepali media men.  He must be aware that he is now loaded with an onerous task which is to unite the media men and bring all of them in his umbrella organization if that at all is. 

Nepali media can become a vibrant force still if we unite by abandoning our petty political preferences. We hope that Mr. Koirala will take the required initiatives to unite the splintered journalists and make efforts that makes the Nepali media credible enough to which we are not at the moment for certain understandable reasons.

We count of Shiva Gaunley.

Mr. Shiva Koirala should personally act in favor of the small newspapers that have to loiter here and there, and at times to the foreign missions, in order to keep their media house going. Meager assistance from the government as a dole will not work effectively now. Either the government should scrap the monthly dole amount altogether or be kind enough to award the government advertisements on a proportional basis but that should be made a regular one. We mean it.

We at this paper think that our new Lieutenant, Mr. Shiva Gaunley, knows about the problems being faced by small newspapers and hope that apart from his several Himalayan duties, he will spare some time from his busy schedule to look upon the issues and the problems being confronted by the smaller ones who, one has to admit, have in essence contributed much for each and every political changes that have taken place in Nepal, if one were to recall. The system now in place is only because of the small media.

Mr. FNJ President! It is now your turn to act and exhibit your love and honor for the ones which have also continued much to elevate your own ranks to this position.

Congratulations Mr. Shiva Gaunley-Koirala.   We are with you if it is a two way affair. 

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