Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism

Ali A

Publications

• Review Article
  Media Ownership and Control Versus Press Freedom in a Democratic Africa
  Author(s): Ali AAli A
  
  The deregulation of the broadcast industry in Africa has helped politicians to advance their ambitions at the expense of the ethics of the profession of journalism. In Nigeria, there are prevalent cases of the state media being used by government to run political campaigns of only the political parties of the ruling class. This is the same story where private media organizations are owned by chieftains of some political parties in the country. Such media (both print and electronic) are used as propaganda machineries by these party chieftains and also used as media for carrying out negative reports about the party in power. Many African countries have similar situations. This paper looks at how the ownership of media organizations across the continent has interfered with the standards of professionalism in journalism. The paper will use the social responsibility theory and the libertar.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7912.1000239

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