{"id":342984,"date":"2023-01-06T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineradionepal.gov.np\/en\/?p=342984"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:39:02","slug":"put-code-of-conduct-in-practice-press-council-chair-basnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2023\/01\/06\/342984.html","title":{"rendered":"Put code of conduct in practice: Press Council Chair Basnet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kathmandu: Press Council Nepal Chairman Balkrishna Basnet has said the Council is actively monitoring Nepali journalism and discouraging bad practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a programme in Kathmandu Friday, he said the complaints about \u2018bargaining journalism&#8217; had increased in Nepal of late and the Council was determined to resist any attempt that violates the journalism code of conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his address to an orientation organised by the Council for online media, he said the Council was alert over rising complaints about the use of a threat for publishing the news after not getting personal interests fulfilled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combined efforts are essential to deter such a trend as it weakens journalism as a whole.\u00a0 \u201cSome media houses are under the close watch of Council for the alleged violation of media ethics and the Council will reach them for an \u2018action\u2019 by garnering evidence,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issue is more prominent in online media and YouTube channels, according to him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rajdhani daily\u2019s editor Sagar Pandit who gave his presentation on the subject matter said online journalism had posed a further challenge to the entire legacy media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compliance with the code of conduct will sort out several problems, he viewed, advising the Council to act more vibrantly to foster professional accountability among the journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Press Council Nepal Chairman Balkrishna Basnet has said the Council is actively monitoring Nepali journalism and discouraging bad practices. Speaking at a programme in Kathmandu Friday, he said the complaints about \u2018bargaining journalism&#8217; had increased in Nepal of late and the Council was determined to resist any attempt that violates the journalism code of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":342985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-342984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342986,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342984\/revisions\/342986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342984"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=342984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}