‘Tough Time for Bangladeshi Journalists’

‘The journalists of Bangladesh are passing tough time. Because rich businessmen and multinational companies have gripped the media sector’. ABM Musa a prominent veteran Bangladeshi journalist has said this at the reunion of the Alumni Association of Dhaka University Journalism and Mass Communication Department today. He thinks that journalists have lost their unity. So their struggle to improve the workforce and profession has become weak.

On the other hand the chief guest of the program, Shofiq Ahmed, the minister for law has urged the journalists to act more bravely. He says, ‘the constitution declares fundamental rights of people. Mass media plays the most important role to fulfill those rights. Journalists will have to be more brave and carefree. For this reason media should get scope to work freely’.

Shawkat Mahmud, the president of National Press Club of Dhaka has said at the program that journalism means living with the truth and that has become the toughest work at present.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka and other leaders of the Alumni Association also spoke at the occasion.

Recently the Editor of the most circulated daily newspaper of Bangladesh says in his speech in a program that a giant business is investing in media sector to protect itself. Last week two news papers have published news about the misdeed of that business group and then the group has filed a case against those newspapers for a ridiculous reason. There are also some newspapers where the financer have declared themselves as Editor.