Healthy competition imperative for flourishing of mass media properly: Commission

BSS
Published On: 14 Jan 2025, 19:09 Updated On:14 Jan 2025, 19:32
Speakers at a view-sharing meeting at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner in Khulna . Photo : BSS

KHULNA, Jan 14, 2025 (BSS) - Speakers at a view-sharing meeting here today unanimously viewed that healthy competitions can be the crucial means of proper flourishing of the mass-media.

There is an urgent need of freeing the mass media from all sorts of personal, business and political influence so that it can play vital roles for building the society perfectly.

Members of the Mass media Reform Commission and media workers made the observation while addressing a divisional-level view-sharing meeting of the commission at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner (DC).

Commission Chief Kamal Ahmed addressed the meeting as chief guest. Commission members Akhter Hossain Khan, Zimi Amir, Titu Dutta Gupta, Abdullah Al Mamun and Begum Kamrunnessa Hassan also spoke.

Around 150 mass media workers from 10 districts in the division joined the meeting along with taking part in open discussion.

Commission Chief Kamal Ahmed said they will submit proposals for formulating time-fitting policy so that the mass media can play effective nation building roles.

He said there is a need to ensure minimum wage for the working journalists. If the journalists face problems of financial insecurity they will have no mentality of working independently, he added.

Kamal Ahmed also said scores of media houses had been shuttered down during the previous 15 years illegally making huge journalists jobless and they can claim compensation.

Apart from this, there is also a need for repealing the cases lodged against journalists under the digital security act immediately, he added.

 

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