NIGERIA MEDIA OUTFIT; FAIRDEALING AND
QUALITY REPOTRTAGE
Fair-dealing must be
Equal to All Irrespective of the Status of Such Individual
Colonel Obasanjo like every other Nigerian soldiers ambushed
by the deadly bokoharam insurgents deserve to be honoured, but where an
individual is singled out of the multitude who are victims of the ambushed of
the 12-12-14 thus shows the incompetence of our media outfit to be fair in
their reportage.
It must be however noted that the crisis in the northern
eastern part of the country in under reported the timid Nigerian population
only gets what’s fed on him or her by the reports in our national dailies. It’s a smack of biasness on our media outfits
to carry the news of colonel Obasanjo and even went ahead to use same as front
page as fondly said they need catchy headline to attract readers. Before the
ambush on colonel Obasanjo we have had series of ambush on the Nigerian
soldiers and none has for once made the headline of any of our national
dailies, which brings about the competence of our reporters and media outfit on
quality reportage and fair-dealing.
The objective of journalism should be predicated on fairness
and equal opportunity to reporting events as it occurred irrespective of the
status of the individual subject of the report. Over the years the Nigerian
media circle as been a subject of ridicule as it has not been able to leverage
on it’s responsibly. If ALJAZEERA, BBC can comfortably carry information’s that
bothers on the Nigerian territory the question is what has been the
responsibility of our own and home grown media outlet both prints and
electronic.
It saddens the heart that reports on our dailies these days
are politically motivated and any happenings that are not connected to any
political figure in recent times those not deserve to be reported. Journalism
in its objective should serve the purpose of truth carrier to the timid
population of the average Nigerians in the society in other to avail themselves
of the current situation of happenings in their country and society.
Our media outfit should be mindful of their kind of
reportage that tends to tilt more to some specifics other than general and
should always abide by its code of conduct cum mission and vision statement in
purposeful, fair and equal reportage of events as they occur without
discrepancies in the reports of various media outfits.
Nigeria can only show its real self and strive well through
the quality of reports we get from our Media outfits, which in turn keeps the
masses abreast of current happenings in our locality, society, sate, nation and
the world beyond.
Mubarak Tijani writes from Lagos State Nigeria
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