A Presentation byDeep Raj Uprety

BA First YearKathmandu Pragya Kunja College

•Bhadra 3 Twelve Nepalis were abducted at Iraq border

•Bhadra 4 Terrorists’ website published news of abduction

•Bhadra 5 A committee formed to study about the abduction

•Bhadra 6 Video of abduction Nepalis put on website

•Bhadra 7-14 Government tried to free abducted Nepali/Futile

•Bhadra 15 Abducted Nepalis were assassinated

•Bhadra 16 Violence permeated Nepal

The word in headline of Kantipur daily

indicates ALL

Provocative words such as brutal

murder and inhuman murder

were used (Rajdhani, Annapurna Post and Gorkhapatra

daily)

Inflammatory Editorial(Rajdhani daily)

How long we remain helpless?

Nepalis were not seen such helpless and weak in the past. We were never been scared and powerless. The offspring of valiant Balbhadra weren’t coward and humiliated at such degree before. We haven’t experienced Nepal been made naked and mortified with its hypocrisy helplessness as well as powerlessness as it is now. Nepali were abducted in Iraq by…………

Rajdhani Daily, special editorial on Bhadra 16

“We have requested not to do anything to Nepali until prime minister return back, didn’t we do great job before too? We have released such a long statement that time too.”

Cartoon in Nepal Samachar Patra

Reveal the indolence of government, but somehow incite the public disgrace towards government

“We have requested not to do anything to Nepali until prime minister return back, didn’t we do great job before too? We have released such a long statement that time also.”

Cartoon (Nepal Samachar Patra)

Photograph of killed NepalisSimilar type of photographs were published by Gorkhapatra, Rajdhani, Nepal weekly

Boys hurling out the board of Mosque in street(left), People vandalizing the Mosque at Ghantaghar(right) – this type of photos can arouse the violence among the

religious groups.

Various religious groups leaders joining hand in hand to promote religious tolerance after killing of 12 Nepali

EthicsAccording to the code of journalistic ethics – 2003:(Amended and revised -2008)

Article 4. The journalists and media institutions shall not carry out the following acts:

2 – Not adversely affect social justice or goodwill: Not publish, broadcast or produce- disseminate such deformed and provocative material as may have adverse impact on social justice and goodwill and be contrary to professional dignity.

6 – Do not penalize the victims: Not publish, broadcast or produce – distribute any news or opinion with the usage of language, sound, picture, figure, scene, or the like in such a way as to make the victim suffer further pain. 8 – Not encourage violence, terrorism and crime: Not present any news, opinion picture, opinion survey, sound or scene in such a manner as to encourage destructive activity, violence, terrorism, and crime, or exaggerate such activity. 9 – Not publish or broadcast scenes of nudity or pictures in a manner that spreads hatred, fear and provocation: Not present any news, opinion, picture, opinion survey, sound or scene in such a manner as to encourage destructive activity, violence, terrorism and crime, or exaggerate such activity.

Nepali media played an irrepsonible role violating code of conduct on Bhadra 16 that incited violence

Nepali media corrected themselves by helping to maintain the social order after Bhadra 17