Media Not Playing Its Role As A Watchdog – Lai Mohammed
Mr Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has said that the Nigerian media is not playing its role as a watchdog. Information Guide Nigeria
He made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at an interactive session of the 27th Nigerian Economic Summit with the topic, “The Fourth Estate – Holding Power Accountable’’.
As reported by THE NATION, in Mohammed’s words, “Today, it is not uncommon to have media organisations hold annual award ceremonies. In most cases, their awardees are top officials of the same government they are supposed to hold accountable.
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“Such awards include: Governor or Governors of the Year; Minister or Ministers of the Year; Politician or Politicians of the Year. Let’s even forget the fact that the criteria for giving such awards are dubious, at best.
“Let’s forget that some of these awardees support the awarding organisations in one form or the other, especially during the awards. jamb results
“To what extent can such media organizations hold their awardees, most of them top officials of government at all levels, accountable?
“Is this not antithetical to the watchdog role prescribed for the press in the Constitution?’’.
The minister also identified engagement of partisan media men to anchor sensitive programme as another factor preventing the fourth estate to hold power to account.
“For example, there is a national television station here in this country that has, as one of its anchors, a partisan, a known opposition party man.
“Yes, the said anchor is also a journalist. But what kind of objectivity can we expect from such an Anchor? No matter how professional he seeks to be, his partisanship will always be a blur.”
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