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Cyrus Majebi Co-founder @ TwoCents, plugME • Lagos • 1 year, 1 month ago
<p>I made a mental note to come back to this and digest all you touched on.</p><p>First, It's nice that you shared something after a while...</p><p>Recently I've found journalism more and more interesting and fascinating...</p><p>One aspect that I find myself thinking about a lot is the impartiality you spoke of when reporting the news...and whether it's actually possible to be truly impartial.</p><p>I ask questions like..</p><p>How much does the political leanings of the owner(s) of a news outlet affect how that outlet..</p>
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Suzanne Nanyonge Translation and Journalism @ Buea • Buea, Cameroon • 1 year, 1 month ago

So it now depends on what is decided as guidelines. That's why there are specific programmes like Nat Geo that focus on wildlife only. They can still broadcast news on other things like cooking, entertainment, but they focus on wildlife. Same with KTO channel that is strictly on religion. The same way a political party can decide to set up a news magazine. Majority of the information will be on the activities of the party, with minor information on other general activites.

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Suzanne Nanyonge Translation and Journalism @ Buea • Buea, Cameroon • 1 year, 1 month ago

Thank you, Cyrus.

Concerning your first question, I'll start by talking about the editorial policy/line of a news organ. Let's take it as the main guideline of that news organ. Anything they publish is centered around their guidelines they decided to follow. For example, if the founders of TwoCents decide to set up a radio station, daily news can be broadcast, yes, but particular attention will be on the activities and benefits of being on TwoCents. So yeah, it greatly affects news outlets.

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