Short Communication
Year: 2018 | Month: October | Volume: 5 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 451-456
Role of Media in Ensuring Good Governance: An Analysis
Dr. Pallav Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, West Bengal State University, West Bengal, India
ABSTRACT
Development Journalists feel that greater stress on `development oriented politics' and greater media attention for such development are absolutely essential. The media should act as partners in various developmental programmes and should perform the role of watchdog on the governance. The media are not only a framework through which news about developmental initiatives is passed on to the larger field of the common man but also a filter through which the common man's perception of government policies and their implementation is brought to the attention of the government. One of its principal objectives may be to gather people's reactions to the programmes and policies of the government and their implementation and to report them back for appropriate and corrective action by the government. But the government, in the present set-up, lacks an organized and effective system to find out and disseminate the perceptions of the common man about various government programmes and initiatives. The media can be made the main channel for collecting and collating the feedback from the people. It is essential to have research wings in academic institutions developing media personnel in reporting news, event analysis and highlights that may help the Government to perform more transparently. This will enable our journalists to carry out original research on issues related with the functioning of the Government at Centre and at various States. Indian newspapers and news agencies should encourage research being carried out by journalists within India in academic research institutions, which will definitely improve the quality of reporting and enhance the participation of journalists in building good governance.
Key words: Role, Media, Ensuring, Good, Governance, Analysis.
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