Presented by BIJAY PANDEY

Press harassment “ An action that is meant to or happens to cause discomfort for the victim through any paper or electronic media”

“ Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have”. - Richard Salent, Former

President CBS New

“News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything is else advertising” - Rubin Frank, Former NBC News President.

Press freedom where is the limit !

Where is my liberty ? Do press mean PRESS ? To Dominate Do press belongs to party ? Communist, congress, Black, White Press

Consequences of Press Freedom

• Crossing of moral and ethical boundaries.• Promotion of untruth as truth and confuse those who know no better.• Exposing the private life of the people in front of public.• Lead in suicide and frustration.• More bias news.• Unwanted information are spreaded.• Disrupts the safety of some individuals.

Drivers for press doing harassment• To catch the people’s attention .

• To get rich fastly.

• For the sake of being first to provide exclusive news.

How press is successful in doing harassment ?

• The paparazzi stalking celebrities. Has lead to the death of very beautiful Princess Diana and American actress Lindsay Lohan.

How press is successful in doing harassment ?

• Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky covered up by press.

• Fake news on Obama funding personally in the Muslim museum.

• Website which had published false news about publication of SLC result.

• News about top level Maoist leaders.

• Five points compromise between Maoist and Government broadcasted as agreement reached .

• Yellow journalism lead death to a Nepali actress Shreesha Karki.

Solutions to the press harassment

• Source of information.

• Strong editorial policy.

• Should not focus on unethical news.

• Unwanted information should not be published.

• Press should provide true news rather than manipulated bias news.

• Should not violate the privacy of others life.

• Proper monitoring.

Thank you!