Posted by: newuser January 29, 2005
Ganging up against Nepal-1?
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I totally agree to Ashu's notion on the propaganda war Nepali media have launched to attack Nepal 1.This has more to do with the lack of competitional and professional mentality then nationalism. First, the content of broadcast is something that should be regulated by the ministry of information. The information act of Nepal provides unprecedented authority to the ministry to block any materials that violates the financial rules and regulations of the country. It also has a set of regulations that censors the publication or braodcast of derogatory materials against the sovereignity of Nepal. The news broadcast of major Nepali media seldom have obliged to those rules and regulations. However the ministry has full authority to punish them if they find that their publications or braodcast violate those rules. They have exercised their power with full thrust specially to small scale media house in the past. If corruption and bribery is kept aside, they can still enforce the rules to anybody. The power and credibilty of a media lies on the quality of programme it delivers to it's audience. It has nothing to do with ultra nationalism. The audiences chose the channel they like and those channel which are popular amongst the audience generate more advertisement and more revenue in the mean time. So the best thing for Nepali TV channels is to produce better, quality programmes.This can only help to their interest. Indians have taken the world by storms. They have better finances, better investment, better equipments but more then that they have better mentality. And it's our mentality that we have to change if we want to compete with them at home. At abroad we can't, we are ages behind them. Sekhar Kapoor, Meera Sial, Gurindher Chaddha and many others have been competing with the top notches of westerners in Showbiz industry. However for Nepali audience, we can produce better programmes. A competetive mindset will help us rather then with jealousy or hatred. The only thing we lack is a can do attitude. Wherever I have met Nepalis, they just tend to succumb to the pressure of their own circle. Money is their topmost priority and they cannot come up with some creative ideas, just engrossed in their own effort to earn money by hooks and crooks.We criticize others but we never try ourself and their lies the problem. Lets believe in ourself and our capabilities and try to make something out of it.. There lies the ladder to our succcess. New User
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