According to a report 41 journalists were killed in the last seven months. 110 journalists were killed last year. A Greek journalist Socratis Guiolas was killed this month in front of his home near Athens. Likewise we have similar stories from Nepal. Radio Tulsipur FM (100.2) chairman Hemraj Dhital becomes the third journalist to be murdered in Nepal in just the past few months. In March, Radio Today Nepal owner Arun Singhaniya was gunned down in Janakpur.Cable TV entrepreneur Jamim Shah was shot in the head on a street in Kathmandu earlier this year.
Caption: Freelance photographer Fabio Polenghi, 48, of Italy lies on a stretcher at Police Headquarter Hospital Wednesday, May 19, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand, after being shot during a government crackdown on anti-government protestors. Polenghi was later pronounced dead by Thai doctors. At least three other journalist were injured in the day long push against anti-government protestors.(Wally Santana/http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/19/1956000/italian-photographer-killed-in.html)
On July 27, 2010 we discussed about the increasing violence towards journalists. And our major question was how can we decrease the risks of journalist and create environment where journaist can report freely.
Here is the unedited version of our conferance.
rajneeshtimes: Greetings to everyone
dkdipak: heloo
rajneeshtimes: welcome to the third edition of global chat
dkdipak: same here rajnessh
ray_tht2002: Thank you rajneesh
rajneeshtimes: u are welcome
rajneeshtimes: can we start with a short introduction of all
rajneeshtimes: let me start with mine
ray_tht2002: okie
dkdipak: ok
rajneeshtimes: i am rajneesh bhandari i am journalist based in nepal
rajneeshtimes: rabin, it's your turn
dkdipak: I am Deepak Neupane, from Arkansas State University, a graduate student of Mass communication
love_arte: hello
rajneeshtimes: @Dina, welcome
love_arte: my name is Dina
ray_tht2002: and i am rabin
ray_tht2002: journalist from Nepal
rajneeshtimes: rabin could u plz write more about u
love_arte: namaste, everyone!
ray_tht2002: hmm,
dkdipak: Namaste Dina
ray_tht2002: its hard to introduce myself....i am rabin giri...working at annapurna post and the himalayan times daily here in Nepal
rajneeshtimes: Ok great
ray_tht2002: thanks
rajneeshtimes: Dina could you describe more about what you do
love_arte: I'm a lecturer at Yogyakarta, Indonesia
love_arte: my field study is media studies and journalism
rajneeshtimes: The topic for today is violence towards journalists.
rajneeshtimes: It is really sad the violence is increasing
rajneeshtimes: And deepak is doing research on the condition of nepalese journalists
dkdipak: ya
rajneeshtimes: could u plz tell more about your research deepak to the participants
dkdipak: I have am doing the research on it
dkdipak: and i have focuses on the attack to the media people
dkdipak: too in that research ..
dkdipak: Uma Singh ... Who was attacked by more than dozen of people
rajneeshtimes: Well let me tell u all the present condition of
dkdipak: Briendra Shah.. He was killed by political party maoist.. but due to imputity no any punishment are announced
rajneeshtimes: yes go on deepak
dkdipak: And
dkdipak: Jagdish parsad Joshi who was murdered ..
dkdipak: but I could not found a lot detail about him
dkdipak: Joshi was Kailali based journalist
dkdipak: and these all journalist were killed after the CA election or the peace agreement of seven allience parties and the maoist..
love_arte: hello everyone
dkdipak: After the death of Uma Singh who was a journalist of Janakpur today and radio .. its owner was also shot dead
rajneeshtimes: OK
rajneeshtimes: how do you view the situation of journalists in Nepal Deepak?
dkdipak: As, different News and articles claims that their must be connection..
dkdipak: And guys do you have any information of Jagdish parsad Joshi
rajneeshtimes: he has been the recent victim
mukunda_swar: JP joshi belong to Kailaki and murdered during his jornalism professional.
dkdipak: As, i concluded the paper .. In the capital.. Journalist could pratice some freedom and they can write as their wish but ..
rajneeshtimes: Now i will like to welcome our new participant Munda
dkdipak: outside of capital the journalist has to think twice before they write any things..
rajneeshtimes: OK
dkdipak: And in the valley.. journalist are financially struggling.. which seems that their condition seems to be ...
rajneeshtimes: @Rabin, could you tell about your experiance about reporting in Nepal?
dkdipak: hard and tough.. and some of the journalist are saying that .. they feel pressure from marketing group
mukunda_swar: hahahaha..i Dipak jee ... i represent myself from Marketing Dept.
rajneeshtimes: OK
rajneeshtimes: Mukunda, how do you see the present senario of journalists in Nepal
rajneeshtimes: We were talking about the situation of journalists around the world
rajneeshtimes: do anyone of you have the information how many journalists were killed in 2010?
love_arte: more than 3 I guess
rajneeshtimes: more than 41 journalists are killed so far
rajneeshtimes: according to IPI
love_arte: OMG!!
dkdipak: ohh
rajneeshtimes: more than 110 journalists were killed last year in 2009
mukunda_swar: yup
love_arte: can't believe that!
love_arte: how come?
dkdipak: as .. most of them are from Middle east or where ..
dkdipak: cand i know the detail about it
rajneeshtimes: http://www.freemedia.at/our-activities/death-watch/countryview/2009/2009/
rajneeshtimes: u can find more information on this site
rajneeshtimes: it provides a detalined account
mukunda_swar: thnx Rajneesh for ur information
rajneeshtimes: 38 journalists were killed in phillipines only
rajneeshtimes: according to the reports
rajneeshtimes: so the question is, how can journalists write freely in such condition?
rajneeshtimes: @Dina, could you please tell some of your experiances about indonesia?
love_arte: 38 in philippine in this ear?
dkdipak: absolutely... the condition is going worst day by fay
rajneeshtimes: @Dina last year
rajneeshtimes: 2009
love_arte: oh ok..
dkdipak: how do you feel Dina.. can i know the journalist fell their.. and why
love_arte: the famous one was happened with Udin, a journalst from ogya my hmetown
love_arte: Yogya
love_arte: he was killed by unknown people
love_arte: nobody know til now
mukunda_swar: The above report has shown how all over the world, Journalist are facing tough time to give right information to the public.
love_arte: he was a very critical journalist
rajneeshtimes: Ok
rajneeshtimes: @Dina where was he killed?
rajneeshtimes: was he killed for some news related issues?
love_arte: he was investigating about corruption at the government of Bantul a district at the province of Yogyakarta
dkdipak: ohh
rajneeshtimes: can u i imagine what would have happened when 32 journalists were murdered in philippines
rajneeshtimes: http://www.freemedia.at/our-activities/death-watch/singleview-dw/4639/
rajneeshtimes: It includes the name of journalists who were killed
rajneeshtimes: @Dina, what do you say about the growing amount of violence on journalists
love_arte: I have no idea, Rajneesh, but I guess mostly because of the political system?
rajneeshtimes: Yes, it must be due to political system and also due to insecurity
rajneeshtimes: @Deepak, what do you say?
rajneeshtimes: Mukund?
love_arte: the political system does not allow the journalist investigate the wounds such as corruption or bad political system in the government..?
dkdipak: I think.. their are certain gorup of people in the world who never accept the reality, truth and do not like the criticize..
dkdipak: such people must ... be their behind attacking the media and media persons..
love_arte: being a journalist is a risky job
mukunda_swar: most of the journilst have been killed by political issues and people who acts wildly
rajneeshtimes: One thing i like to share here; i report on important political events in Nepal and there is so much debate inside the inter party meeting, but when they come to the media and speak, they say everything is moving in the right path
love_arte: really?
rajneeshtimes: yes, that's how things go on
love_arte: they tried to ignore the process of the debate inside?
rajneeshtimes: The main question today is how can we decrease the risk of journalists?
dkdipak: I think .. there is no solution.. of this..
dkdipak: no any rule and regluation.. and .... stop to decrease.. it.. because ..
dkdipak: firstly, government teaches how to control the media and media people to all of them .. through controlling the rights..
rajneeshtimes: @Mukunda, could there be any solution?
dkdipak: and that is followed by all other people as an unknown rebels ..
mukunda_swar: to decrease such incidents, first of all, from the government and stakehodler of the society should move awareness programs and policies to make people aware
rajneeshtimes: OK
rajneeshtimes: @Dina, what' your opinion on this?
love_arte: @ Mukunda..would you tell me how the should move the awareness?
love_arte: sorry Rj, I want more explanation from Mukunda if you dnt mind
love_arte: how to make people aware?
love_arte: Mukunda? are you still here?
mukunda_swar: Giving them proper eduaction about the journalism and its scope.Government as well Journalist federation bodies can teach them by manuals and practical action which comes to make them how jounalist are facing and doing their challenging job to give right information to the general public
dkdipak: Mukunda.. but by telling the weakness of Journaslit .. is their possible to decrease of threats and murder or attack to journalist ?
dkdipak: if we inform all the weakness like.. the minorities group can come to the higlight by controlling the media ..
love_arte: agree with Mukunda and I think the education could be started from the beginning, not only in the university but also from the high school
dkdipak: they will be able to know how they can control media.. there are not many people who can understand the right of the journalist... and.. most of the people think of their benefits first rather then others...
mukunda_swar: We can not stop threats and murder which comes from different groups completely but will help to decrease slowly then slowly.
love_arte: but Deepak, who are going to be able to control the media or newspaper mostly based on "who own the medi/newspaper"
dkdipak: ya the people.. But.. do you think it will be right way if we... let the people know.. about our weakness.. and let them to know how we can control media ..
love_arte: mm... Deepak, who are "we" you mentioned on your statement?
love_arte: especially ..."to know how we can control the media"
dkdipak: I mean..to say .. how the media are able to be controlled
dkdipak: how they can controlled and twist the informations...
love_arte: yes..
rajneeshtimes: It's very difficult to report from the terai region of Nepal. The Nepal police has claimed that the number of armed groups in nepal has decreased but i can find fear in the minds of mnay of my friends who are reporting form terai region. Even the FNJ of Nepal proves that there is insecurity and journalists are doing self censorship because of fear.
mukunda_swar: thnx to everone
mukunda_swar: i got to go
rajneeshtimes: Ok Munkund
love_arte: nice to meet you, Mukunda
dkdipak: ya..
mukunda_swar: c u on next topic soon
dkdipak: ok
dkdipak: nice talking mukunda
rajneeshtimes: @Dina and Deepak
mukunda_swar: yyp
mukunda_swar: bbbue
mukunda_swar: bbye
love_arte: yes
rajneeshtimes: what do you say to the statement of FNJ Nepa
rajneeshtimes: l
rajneeshtimes: "journalist are doing self censorship because of fear"
rajneeshtimes: can we say that we are doing real journalism then
rajneeshtimes: /
rajneeshtimes: ?
love_arte: what is FNJ?
rajneeshtimes: Federation of Nepalese Journalists
love_arte: oh k, thanks...
love_arte: what do you mean with real journalism?
rajneeshtimes: the free and fair journalism without fear
rajneeshtimes: without any pressure
rajneeshtimes: and biasness
love_arte: ok, but you must realize
dkdipak: FNJ has make aware to the jounalist.. about their security but it seems silent regarding to their security and different threats that .... they face
dkdipak: As i know they have to think twice or thrice before writing anythings
rajneeshtimes: @yes, FNJ sends press releases to the media after the incident
love_arte: the journalist and the product of journalism never really free of the vested interest..
rajneeshtimes: what do you mean by that?
rajneeshtimes: @Dina
rajneeshtimes: whose vested interest?
love_arte: i.e. from the business interest, from the owner of th emedia
dkdipak: they never.. do any activitied to make more secure to them.. they never organized any program to the terai region regarding to the saftey issue.. they are focus on KTM
love_arte: especially in the country who their econmic mode of producton is the capitalist system mode of production
dkdipak: and they want to travel abroad mostly
rajneeshtimes: yes, agree with deepak
love_arte: they focuse on the profit oriented
rajneeshtimes: @Dina, i agree with you partly.
rajneeshtimes: However, does the media owner have vested interest in all the news content
rajneeshtimes: or all the media product?
dkdipak: No .. but in some.. there is ...
love_arte: well .. both I think
love_arte: if we assume all news content is also the part of the media product
dkdipak: Rajnessh do you know one news .. that Chaudary group .... has killed their employee.. and
dkdipak: Kantipur and some other media do not broadcasted the news
rajneeshtimes: i am not aware about this incident
love_arte: the process of the relationship amng owner interest, the media production, the news content and the cultural products of the media is called "the political economy of the media"
rajneeshtimes: yes, media is much guided by the poltics and economy
dkdipak: ya
dkdipak: i agree
rajneeshtimes: but my question is are there some content, that re pure, objective, clean, not guided by anything
rajneeshtimes: @Dina?
love_arte: no never
love_arte: there are 2 kind of reality
dkdipak: wht r they'
love_arte: social reality in the society it self
love_arte: and media reality
love_arte: or
love_arte: reality which is created by the media
rajneeshtimes: ok
love_arte: and mostly the media reality is created based on the interest of the media's owner
rajneeshtimes: I agree
rajneeshtimes: OK we are at the end of our discussion this week
rajneeshtimes: one final statement from all the participants
love_arte: yes..
love_arte: I think so many journalists will join here, Rj..
dkdipak: ya \
rajneeshtimes: many had agrred
rajneeshtimes: agreed
rajneeshtimes: but they must be somewhere reporting
love_arte: this is a crucial thing
rajneeshtimes: yes
rajneeshtimes: i am posting this discussion on blog
dkdipak: I hope all the people understand.. the feeling and the difficulties face by journalist
rajneeshtimes: yes
rajneeshtimes: that's right deepak
love_arte: yes
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