Journos took money from the royal govt.: MoIC

[npnews]

Journos took money from the royal govt.: MoIC

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) has revealed that a number of journalists and media organisations took money from the erstwhile royal government to write in its favor.

According to the Ministry, some 84 journalists and media organisations had received taxpayers' money from the royal government fund in the name of "dissemination of peace-related information" from their respective media.

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2006/jun/jun12/news01.php

[aayo_gorkhali]

Hey, everybody needs help once in a while.

Good example is this forum.  I am surprised I can't post anything in violation of US law even though I am in Nepal.
However, I am not implying Nepalnews takes money from US government. 

This is what the agreement says:

"You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material in violation of United States Federal law."

[Bishnu]

perhaps this message will help us to find out the true names of mandales on this forum

Hardtalk = Jasodha pradhan (she refers the link on her propaganda website, it true name would be www.propagandsreview.com.np)
Nee = Pushpa raj Pradhan
Arajpandey =Nirodh Raj Pandey
my_voice =Hari Sharan Lamichhane
etc. etc.
all the royalist are supporting Gyane, because they should do it for bakshis
all the democrats are supporting for democracy, because they love Nepal, peace and democracy, they are unbiased, they are deciding every things based on facts, they need no bakshis, because they are hard working people.
Therefore they are also telling no to corrupted leader not to the brutalities of some liftist, but always yes to democracy.

[raj66]

They were actually diverting funds meant for arms while the royal boot lickers were really sabotaging Gyanendra internally.You will read it soon. Bet any one.

[prabesh]

This news shows how corrupt the Nepali journalists are. Those who advocated for the cause of democracy did not bothered to get money from royal government in the condition of transmitting news in its favour. Though the economic situtation of the weeklies are poor so they had taken the grant due to some compulsion but look at Tirtha Koirala, News Chief of KTV, Sarad Chandra Wasti, one of the senior person of KTV and good writer, Dilli Basel Chief Reporter of Channel Nepal TV, how shameless behaviour they made. They all are getting salary more than 20,000 rupees per month from the organizations they are working for but they sold their professionalism in such a cheap rate. It is a matter of shame that those who had talken the money issuing statements and saying they did not take the money but they are not giving concrete proof to support their statements. If those media houses they are affiliated with are really professional and committed towards democracy they have to sack such corrupted people and the government should also take strong action against them. All journalists should be aware to keep such dirty people out of this field to maintain professional ethics in journalism.It is a matter of shame that journalists who were involved in uncovering the wrongdoings of others are involved in such a dirty game.

[Shuva chintak]

dear MoIC,
It was very sad and shocking to learn that your Ministry  has revealed that a number of journalists and media organizations took money from the erstwhile royal government to write in its favor. According to your Ministry, some 84 journalists and media organizations had received taxpayers' money from the royal government fund in the name of "dissemination of peace-related information" from their respective media.
My question here is:
1.how did your ministry confirm that the money was taken to write in favor of the erstwhile royal government. Was the reason of the money taken mentioned on the receipts or admitted by the recipients? Weren't this kind of money  awarded to any other press,reporter,writer, poet  etc in our history?
2 If the money was given or awarded for their contributions by the erstwhile government, was it wrong to receive by the recipients? It could be that the fact   or the news at that time was relevant and outstanding.  LIkewise what you thought today could be wrong to the future government. It would never end. So we should try to understand and consider. It does not do any good by  just pointing someone's so called mistakes or wrong doing. Who would not want to receive the award given by the government .  Would  you not Mr. MoIC spokesman.
3.Is the purpose of this news to convict  the recipients or just trying to bring their image down.
Personally I feel that MoIC is disrespecting the views,thoughts and the integrity of these 84 journalists and media organizations that in MoIC's view were just in favor of the erstwhile royal government. I am afraid it could even give a negative impact on their morale. The same person could be a good for someone and a bad to someone. LIke I said earlier the journalists and media organization of today could be wrong to tomorrow's government. No one's perfect. Well I have nothing to do with the above mentioned journalists and media organizations. Since so called, we are in full democracy I thought of expressing my views only. No politics to journalist and media organization please. If I had not understood the version of MoIC and if my views had gone wrong please excuse me.
Thanks and god bless us and our country

[freedomfighter.np]

Its nothing, just a tip of iceberg. The taxpayers money misuse scale is huge.

who is going to pay back our money now??

I heard that goverment is going to ask to hold accounts of Gyanedra Shahs family in foreign banks. May be those balance can be used for 'chhayatipurti'.

 

[freedomfighter.np]

dear MoIC,
It was very sad and shocking to learn that your Ministry  has revealed that a number of journalists and media organizations took money from the erstwhile royal government to write in its favor. According to your Ministry, some 84 journalists and media organizations had received taxpayers' money from the royal government fund in the name of "dissemination of peace-related information" from their respective media.
My question here is:
1.how did your ministry confirm that the money was taken to write in favor of the erstwhile royal government. Was the reason of the money taken mentioned on the receipts or admitted by the recipients? Weren't this kind of money  awarded to any other press,reporter,writer, poet  etc in our history?
2 If the money was given or awarded for their contributions by the erstwhile government, was it wrong to receive by the recipients? It could be that the fact   or the news at that time was relevant and outstanding.  LIkewise what you thought today could be wrong to the future government. It would never end. So we should try to understand and consider. It does not do any good by  just pointing someone's so called mistakes or wrong doing. Who would not want to receive the award given by the government .  Would  you not Mr. MoIC spokesman.
3.Is the purpose of this news to convict  the recipients or just trying to bring their image down.
Personally I feel that MoIC is disrespecting the views,thoughts and the integrity of these 84 journalists and media organizations that in MoIC's view were just in favor of the erstwhile royal government. I am afraid it could even give a negative impact on their morale. The same person could be a good for someone and a bad to someone. LIke I said earlier the journalists and media organization of today could be wrong to tomorrow's government. No one's perfect. Well I have nothing to do with the above mentioned journalists and media organizations. Since so called, we are in full democracy I thought of expressing my views only. No politics to journalist and media organization please. If I had not understood the version of MoIC and if my views had gone wrong please excuse me.
Thanks and god bless us and our country

Dear Shuva Chintak,

Here I suppose that you are not one of them in the list.

1. The list speaks the truth.

2. 'Chori ko saman bechne ra kinne dubai doshi hunchha'.

3. People who fear thier morale do not take something for wrong reason. If they think that they got that due to their good contribution, they should be happy coz their names are there. for example getting into madan puraskar list is prestigious.

[aayo_gorkhali]

What's even worse is those who took money from the royal government to write in its favor, didn't even do what they promised to do (at least most of them).  Shows true colors.  I remember one saying "Don't bite the hands that feed you."

[freedomfighter.np]

I just found a "shayari" on the internet:

Mehenat walon ko khabar kya bakshis kya chij hai!
daan purskar lijiye aru samajhiye royalty kya chij hai!!

 

[Bishnu]

dear MoIC,
It was very sad and shocking to learn that your Ministry  has revealed that a number of journalists and media organizations took money from the erstwhile royal government to write in its favor. According to your Ministry, some 84 journalists and media organizations had received taxpayers' money from the royal government fund in the name of "dissemination of peace-related information" from their respective media.
My question here is:
1.how did your ministry confirm that the money was taken to write in favor of the erstwhile royal government. Was the reason of the money taken mentioned on the receipts or admitted by the recipients? Weren't this kind of money  awarded to any other press,reporter,writer, poet  etc in our history?
2 If the money was given or awarded for their contributions by the erstwhile government, was it wrong to receive by the recipients? It could be that the fact   or the news at that time was relevant and outstanding.  LIkewise what you thought today could be wrong to the future government. It would never end. So we should try to understand and consider. It does not do any good by  just pointing someone's so called mistakes or wrong doing. Who would not want to receive the award given by the government .  Would  you not Mr. MoIC spokesman.
3.Is the purpose of this news to convict  the recipients or just trying to bring their image down.
Personally I feel that MoIC is disrespecting the views,thoughts and the integrity of these 84 journalists and media organizations that in MoIC's view were just in favor of the erstwhile royal government. I am afraid it could even give a negative impact on their morale. The same person could be a good for someone and a bad to someone. LIke I said earlier the journalists and media organization of today could be wrong to tomorrow's government. No one's perfect. Well I have nothing to do with the above mentioned journalists and media organizations. Since so called, we are in full democracy I thought of expressing my views only. No politics to journalist and media organization please. If I had not understood the version of MoIC and if my views had gone wrong please excuse me.
Thanks and god bless us and our country

Dear Shuva Chintak!
providing funds to journalists to write in its favor is every where in the world, but there are some limitations, government can prefer to their friends if minimum criteria are fulfilled. If you go through to propagandas website www.peoplesrewiev.com.np run by mandales (Jasudha Pradhan and her  husband), they were writing every steps of king perfect and others totally wrong.
This shows that they were paid 100% from king. He is allowed to do it, but with his own money not of taypayers money.
if PM gives one journalist some money from his own pocket to write in his favor, it is ok, the journalist will write once then he will write neutral information afterwards. if you read the interview from jasudha pradhan once , you will not read her interview any more. she was the person who has taken our money mostly. such journalists have to go jail.
Before loktantra, I have asked pradhan couple how much money they are getting for their propagandas.

-kantipur looks quite unbiased, although some have taken the our money, perhaps there were only some biased articles
-nepalnews is unbiased
-newsofnepal (= Pushkar pradhan) was once biased(100% for king) but became unbiased since last 6 months (perhaps he has seen that this king has no chance
-peoplesreview is propagandas or gyanendrasreview

[aseems]

After the Journos, now MoIS should disclose the amount taken by Kantipur publication from IFJ (I believe its about 15 crores). By the way, let us all know the exact amount of funds received for Janandolan 2 also.

[freedomfighter.np]

It is high time to reveal all the names who received 'puraskar' for 'chakadi' in different forms from royal goverment, an aparent misuse of tax payers money: 'mehenat ra pasinako kamai'.

All the money should be compensated, those who received money and distributed should be punished.

We demand separate corruption investigation body!
We demand justice!!!

[arajpandey]

Thats what Nepals Freedom of Press Means. Jasko Shakti Uskai Bhakti.
What if this is a surprise to Nepalis.
They used to take it long before.
The SPAM supports are taking this issue as if Nepal is the most uncorrupted country in the world this kind of thing happened for the first.

Whoever is in the govt. These kind of Journo don't care they used to take money from so called Democratic Parties, they took from Royal Govt, and they will take in future.

Everybody knows that.. ... .... ..... ......


Amit

[swapnil]

Well these journos took money to write in favor of the fellow countrymen, Kantipur takes money from India and hence writes in favor of India. If you write anything against India, it will not publish. You need to read article from a Mr John Narayan Parajuli in Kantipur and you will know how hell bent Kantipur is toward India. I think Kantipur should be closed and banned in Nepal as it is speaking against the interest of Nepal. It is wrong to take money from the government to speak in its favor but its condemnable to take money from foreigners and talk in favor of them.