PROLIFERATION OF RADIO STATION ON ETHICAL JOURNALISM PRACTICE
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PROLIFERATION OF RADIO STATION ON ETHICAL JOURNALISM PRACTICE
Abstract
This study looked at how the growth of radio stations affects ethical journalism practices. The study’s entire population consists of 200 NUJ members from Abuja. The researcher employed questionnaires to collect data.
The descriptive survey research design was used for this investigation. The survey included 133 respondents who served as production chairmen, secretaries, new and old members.
The acquired data were displayed in tables and analysed with simple percentages and frequencies. The study’s entire population consists of 200 NUJ members from Abuja. The researcher employed questionnaires to collect data.
The descriptive survey research design was used for this investigation. The survey included 133 respondents who served as production chairmen, secretaries, new and old members. The acquired data were displayed in tables and analysed with simple percentages and frequencies.
Chapter one
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Media are social institutions that aspire to make a moral contribution to society; thus, guidelines to regulate journalism activity are required. According to Oso and Pate (2011: 145), Johnson stated that the media has the capacity to be a “great secular church” and an evangelistic system for dispelling the darkness of ignorance, expelling error, and establishing truth.
Journalists have been accused of being subjective when performing their duties, and their function has been debated. According to Briggs and Burke (2005), “journalists are not to be trusted” and are “slanderous”. (Briggs, Burke, 2005).
The reason for this is that, regardless of ownership, employers in the news media, whether government-owned or private, are subject to editorial control. Government-owned media strives to protect the government’s interests, whereas private media protects the interests of its owners, resulting in a violation of the code of ethics.
As the proverb goes, “He who pays the piper dictates the tone”.
Journalism is the trade or profession of reporting news to the public through various ways. According to James Glen Stovall, journalists have numerous problems while gathering, processing, and distributing news. (Stovall, 2005:18).
Journalists serve as society’s watchdogs or gatekeepers because they determine what news is and make critical decisions about what society says to itself. As the society’s gatekeepers, journalists are guided by a code of ethics that ensures they conduct their jobs within the context.
Ethics in journalism refers to the moral code that journalists are expected to maintain. These include a commitment to revealing the truth objectively and without self-interest; respecting source confidentiality; and attributing what is said to the appropriate source (Ike, 2005:74).
There is no doubt that the concepts of ethical values that guide journalism’s actions towards professionalism are important to its effectiveness and efficiency. Ethics are essentially the rules of conduct that discriminate between acceptable and improper behaviour.
Normal principles guide the behaviour of individuals or groups. Journalistic ethics is a field of philosophy that helps journalists choose what is ethical to do, with the ultimate goal of giving moral rules or norms for journalistic conduct.
It establishes guidelines, standards, norms, or codes to help journalists become more humane, as the media has abused their vocation. An ethical code is unquestionably necessary in any job.
Critical reporting, accuracy, fairness, and objectivity are all increasingly important in journalism today. As a result, journalism ethics serves as a guide for both practicing journalists and the general public, giving ethical norms by which practitioners can be examined and evaluated. The NBS was told to hand over all new stations built in the states to the various state governments and return to the original status quo.
The original stations in Lagos, Ibadan, and Enugu were subsequently amalgamated with the previous northern Nigerian government-owned station, the BCNN (formerly known as Radio Kaduna), to create the new FRCN.
The new organisation would still be known as Radio Nigeria. Over time, a station was established in the new federal capital of Abuja. The five stations (Abuja, Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, and Ibadan) each transmitting on short wave, medium wave, and presently on frequency modulated wave band that currently make up the federal radio corporation of Nigeria network, African’s largest radio network.
Statement of the Problem
A journalist must not publish obscene or vulgar content unless it provides news, however this is not usually the case with radio. Some radio has been discovered to be the result of a “lack of quality control and respect for moral and cultural sensitivities loaded with race, religion, and ethnic stereotypes, disability, physical appearance, or social status” (MCK 2014, p. 4).
The manner in which radio presenters air content called into question the morality and ethics of their work, both in terms of content creation and management as it arose from live phone-in submissions.
The question was whether or not the presenters had experience and were following the Code of Conduct for the Practice of Journalism. To emphasise media adherence to the journalistic code of conduct, the Communications Authority issued a separate code of regulation for broadcast media (CA, 2016).
This Code will not apply if a broadcaster is a member of a body that has demonstrated to the Authority’s satisfaction that its members subscribe to and follow a programming code enforced by that body through its own processes.
The objectives of the study
The study’s aims are:
To determine whether some radio stations violate journalism ethics.
To find out whether radio stations conform to ethical journalism.
To determine the relationship between radio stations and ethical journalism.
Research Question
Do certain radio stations violate journalistic ethics?
Does the radio station adhere to ethical journalism?
Is there a relationship between radio stations and ethical journalism?
Significance of the Study
The study will have a tremendous impact on NUJ and students. The study will provide light on how the growth of radio stations affects ethical journalism practice. The study will also act as a reference for other academics who would engage on the similar issue.
Scope and limitations of the study
The study’s focus includes the expansion of radio stations and their impact on ethical journalism practice. The researcher faces various constraints that limit the scope of the investigation;
a) AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH MATERIAL: The researcher has insufficient research material, which limits the investigation.
b) TIME: The study’s time frame does not allow for broader coverage because the researcher must balance other academic activities and examinations with the study.
1.7 Definition of Terms
ETHICAL JOURNALISM: Journalism ethics and standards include principles of ethics and good practice as they relate to the specific challenges that journalists face.
MEDIA PRACTITIONER: Media relations and public relations practitioners should read as many periodicals, journals, newspapers, and blogs as possible because they are relevant to their practice. Organisations frequently create what is known as a media list, which is a list of potential media outlets who may be interested in the organization’s material.
Ethics is a set of beliefs and rules that influence the attitude and conduct of a specific group of individuals (such as journalists). They are also viewed as motivation based on concepts of right and wrong.
Journalism is the process of obtaining, processing, and delivering information to a large and diverse audience using mass media. It also includes reporting, photographing, and editing news stories for the media.
Practice is a customary method of operation. It is the exercise of a vocation (for example, journalism).
Challenges: Demanding scenarios that impede journalists’ operations based on their behavioural beliefs and operational procedures.
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