Media Accountability Mechanism

Sharma, Shreeman; Acharya, Bhanu Bhakta; Koirala, Samiksha

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“…Desk research is often called secondary research that refers to research approaches that use data that already exists in some form. Richard Schaefer (2017) suggests that the desk approach involves analyzing mass media outputs mainly newspapers and magazines using library resources or the internet. This method aims to re-analyzing material in the collected data for other purposes, re-examining interview transcripts or anything else that does not involve primary research (Hinds et al, 1997).…”

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“…This method aims to re-analyzing material in the collected data for other purposes, re-examining interview transcripts or anything else that does not involve primary research (Hinds et al, 1997). Richard Schaefer (2017) describes the benefit of desk research as it allows researchers using 'a variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data'. Another reason for choosing the desk research for this study is that it offers many qualitative data narratives that discuss issues related to the primary research questions, which have never been analyzed.…”

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“…Besides welfare advertising, the government also expanded its clients offering many opportunities and incentives in Nepal. Sharma et al (2022) found that the government directly and indirectly influences 'the so-called autonomy of the PCN by controlling its budget and access to external funding'. KC (2019) remarks that the state provides subsidies in the name of reducing postal and the taxes, VAT, newspapers' printing papers and transportation expenditure of media houses and the journalists.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the provision of government's advertisement and subsidies that pressured media houses and created a division between the state and the stakeholders. Sharma and Acharya (2022) found that the PCN had promoted a division between the state and the stakeholders while implementing the government's decisions of distributing subsidies in the media. They further note that the distributed budget of 2019 has 'only favors the alliance newspapers' .…”

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Clientelism and its Influence in the Nepali Press

Dahal

2023

Bodhi: Interdisciplinary J

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This review explores the clientelist structure in politics and its influence in Nepali media with two aims: first, to identify how the clientelist structure has been practiced and influenced media in Nepal; second, to identify how the media perform the functions of clientelist networks. This review uses desk research of post 1990 documents focusing on the practices of clientelist structure in personalized behavior of the leaders, volatile political culture, fragmented civic society, and mounting corruption index in Nepal. Clientelism was a widely practiced phenomenon and it weakened the ideological base of the political parties and became the causes of uncertainty in Nepali politics. The unstable politics decreased public trust and reputation of the politicians, and visibility became a major concern to the leaders while reaching out to the electorate. In this context, the media became a vital tool to communicate with the public for political goals. The power holders practice clientelism, appointing loyalties in the board of directors in the state-owned media, attempt to endorse press restricted bills, and distribute welfare advertisements and subsidies to the favorable media. The media owners practice clientelism, recruiting professionals with strong political ties, frequently changing editors and journalists to ensure balanced representation of different political connections. The journalists tend to establish political connections and cover news with limited ethical guidelines with reference to their allies and advocate the political strategies of their patronage. Besides political intervention, the shrinking economy in the limited media market, long history of political parallelism of the press and the strong presence of the role of the state might be the explanation for adopting clientelist networks in the media.

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