the problem of ethics in bhutanese media
The most palpable change in the media industry in Bhutan is that it continues to expand, at an unimaginable speed. From one national newspaper less than a decade ago, today there is a flood of weeklies and biweeklies – many Bhutanese don’t even know them by name or they...
Where has it reached?
Most recommendations on the draft advertisement policy from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York is on the procedures that needs following while giving advertisements to the media. The recommendations, which have recently returned from the university talks about categorising government advertisements as public interest and...
Media must take the lead to speak
I was unfortunate to follow up the new events in Bhutanese media due to my residential shift from Nepal to Australia. Now I have better accessed to internet and computer to have look into what Bhutan is saying these days. Other than normal news flow, I am constantly interested...
Heart of matter
It was not a surprise but surely a setback to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily Bhutan’s Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai saying that he sees the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government revives the Nepali language version of the state-controlled...
Minister Rai, language and communal harmony
It was not an amazing but surely a set back to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily newspaper that Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai see the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government initiated to revive the Nepali language version of the...
Two years on the hot seat
The Bhutanese government, properly called the first elected government of the kingdom, has completed its second year on the hot seat, without any significant progress at hand to boast for. The biggest achievement for it will be this month end when it holds the SAARC summit for the first...