Jaytha wrote: "Aren't there any among journalists who would oppose these direct bribes from the government?" ************ Not that I know of. But the closest person would be researcher/historian Pratyoush Onta, who has written -- in The Nation weekly and elsewhere -- about the urgent need to evaluate/account for the kind of effects that lakhs of dollars of donor paisa has had on the growth (or lack thereof) of Nepali media and media professionals. I have requested Pratyoush and friends at Martin Chautari to arrange a program on a Thursday to discuss Mohsin's this newly-veiled media policy. oohi "interested, from afar, in media as just another competitive business" ashu