“Sincerity without courage leads a journalist towards wrong destination”, MLA Dr Chettri Himalayan People’s Channel celebrates its 2nd Foundation Anniversary
MUKESH SHARMA
KALIMPONG, June 03:
Himalayan
People’s Channel, a local news channel started by the Himalayan Swarojgar &
Berojgar Forum today celebrated its 2nd Foundation Anniversary.
Kalimpong MLA, Dr Harka Bahadur Chettri graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
During
his brief address, MLA Dr Chettri advising the journalists to work sincerely said
that if a journalist is motivated and sincere towards his work then lakhs of
people will stand for his/ her support if he / she are being threatened.
“Sincerity without courage leads a journalist towards wrong destination”, he
stated. News does not happen all of a sudden, instead they are made, he
asserted. Saying that journalism is a noble profession the MLA added that
journalists are the entities who clean the society of all negative elements.
During
the programme, journalist Pradeep Lohagun kept forward his views on the
problems faced in visual/ electronic media whereas journalist cum poet Manoj
Bogati spoke on the print media. They whined that neither the people are
concerned about how the regional newspapers and channels are run nor the
Administration asks about it. In one hand, the Administration lets the media
houses publish the Government advertisements, whereas in the other if any
mistakes occur in the publishing, then the media houses are questioned whether
they bear license and proper registration. Likewise they underlined that there
are 2 main reasons which leads others to interfere in the field of journalism,
firstly the journalists not doing their work with full dedication and secondly,
the journalists not being given proper status/ identity by their media houses
along with low payment for their hard work. Even the national level journalists
can be seen being much bias nowadays, they said.
Also
during the programme few of the youth journalists namely, DK Waiba, Jilas
Ghataraj, Prajjwal Chettri and Amir Basnett were honoured. The children from
the Natya Nrityam Sansthan also presented colourful dance performances.
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