The Radiant Star

A commentary on the publication of the indecent front-page photos of burnt dead bodies in a bus inferno by two national dailies of Nepal.
Yesterday evening, news of bus inferno in Bara has already shocked us. The ‘accident’ happened on the eve of Tarai Banda thus making a lot of us suspect that it was [...]

Audience participation in television is always difficult. It’s difficult for television stations to broadcast letters they receive, though we have seen CNN broadcasting thoughts of their viewers. In newspaper, the opinion page and letters to editor gives readers space to express themselves (of course, they are selected and edited).
In television, there is very little normal [...]

Rethinking About Media Sources
Yesterday saw an event that needs to me considered by the media personnel. A group of people protested in front of Kantipur Complex, the building that houses the biggest daily Kantipur and Kantipur TV among others and curtailed it for more than four hours. Only after Kantipur TV representative read an apology [...]

It is always difficult to be in-charge of the state media as the person should be ready all the time to change the overall stance of the media anytime the government changes. Its probably the most undesirable task for the professional journalists.
Gorkhapatra, The Rising Nepal, Nepal Television and Radio Nepal are four state-run media and [...]

I would call it a sad event. Nepal Samacharpatra, a national daily, published a cartoon on Sunday that explicitly accused Kantipur Publications, the leading publishing house in the country, of propaganda and yellow journalism.
The cartoon, published three columns on the front page, shows four members of the International Media Mission that recently visited Nepal to [...]