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Back ground ofNepal media history and politics                        Nepal is an economically deprived country, which lies in between two emerging nation India and China.Nepal took a shape of nation when king Prihivi Narayan Shah  of Nepal  conquered 42 small states of Nepal in to  single country called Kingdom of Nepal.During those time king Prithivi Narayan Shah used to appoint ‘ Katuwal’  to  disseminate  messages .Katuwal   post ,generally carried by man, whose duty is to spread important  message with the help of drums staying  at heights. He moves from place to place ,gather masses  by beating drum and share  messages and news of states. During   those days   katuwal used to be authentic source of news about festival announcement. Army  recruitments , tax systems. This system can be traced as earlier form of mass media used in Nepal to disseminate news inNepal history Same trends continuous later in Nepal until the then Rana Primie minister Janga bahadur brought Gidde press (eagle press) from
United Kingdom. Bringing gidde press from UK can be taken as milestone in development of media inNepal.  This press was used to published bills and laws ofNepal during 1850’s this media was used to disseminate news of royal families and Rana.They did not carry views and ideas of common people.Gorkhapatra is the oldest newspaper   printed in
Nepal which started in 1870s.gorkhapatra is own by government so they carries governments news and favor government rather than publishing new of citizen. After establishment of democracy in 1950, influence of media rises inNepal. This was democratic era. Many newspaper and magazines started publishing voices of people.  Again,   King Mahendra   seized democracy and started party less   Panchayat system it was beginning of Dark Age again. This age continued until 1990.After people movement of 1990 King Birendra, son of former King Mahendra re established democracy and started living as constituent king.   In order to encourage people voices and safeguard democracy new constitution made on 1990 gave right of information .right to publication and free press laws so that media could act as fourth   part ofNepal government. Soon after restoration of democracy many newspaper, magazines, radio stations and TV stations started to disseminate news views and entertainment. PresentlyNepal has about 10 daily broadsheets .100 of weekly, 8 satellite TV 30  and FM stations After restoration of democracy in 1990, Nepal was heading towards develop but due to political instability between leaders, emergence of Maoist with slogan of republicanNepal checked the flow of development.In 2004, the then Prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba dissolved parliament. However, due to Maoist terror he could not made an environment for election. later on again  ,King Gyanendra took the supreme power of country in his hand and started ruling according to his own will .he appointed minister who were not members of parliaments. His acts were totally against constitution of
Nepal 1990.As it was unconstitutional move by king, whole media attacked him with editorial views and news. Along with that leader of seven party alliances started to demand for restoration of parliament and step back of king from active politics. However, king Gynandries did not heard that, he mobilized army to control Maoists. He brought ordinance to control press, which had provision to censorship, punishment to media person and journalist for publishing news and editorial against king and his family. He banned airing of news from fm stations claiming that fm is just for entertainment propose rather than information. He organized local level to elect his supporters as seven party alliances denied election and its results too. As king move was against constitution, major donor countries like USA,Denmark,
Norway stop giving loans and grants for development. Along with that, violation of human rises  sky rocketed . Due to all these  steps of king , Nepal turned in to 20 th failed    country of world,according to survey  done by US Foreign Policy magazine and the US-based Fund for Peace think-tank.During last 2 years, due to influence of mass media   agenda setting popularity of king   gone down. People started demonstration for absolute democracy constituent assembly as Nepalese are fading up of king rules. Finally,  the frustration of Nepalese leads to 20 days long people movement, which took place from April 2^nd to April 26 th of 2006. After 24 days long strikes and curfew king restored parliament and called seven party alliance to form government. King agreed to draft new constitution after holding election for constituent assembly. He agreed  with SPA demand to bring Maoist on mainstream  politics so that peace could be restore  in Nepal .during those 24 days strikes, and curfew mass media plays vital  role  to disseminate  news ,views and ideas  of strikes along with that  it persuade people  for need  of democracy. It helps to bring masses on street against autocratic king. Roles of various media in 24 days long people movement ofNepal is  described below                                                                                                          Newspaper                                                                                                                      Newspaper is the major source of information in Nepal .As 40percent of people are only  illiterates inNepal, only few around 500 thousand (according to circulation) read it daily. In spite of that it have great impact  on educated people  as they are stake holder in mass movement too as they are  aware of liberty ,importance of  democracy, freedom . Kantipur national daily plays a vital role in disseminating news of people movement as its pro-king newspaper. It continuously gives news against kings act and make public aware about king autocratic nature. Photos and news of mass movement on katipo made people t come out of home and participate in movement. As Kantipur has largest network of journalist in Nepal, it covered news from different part ofNepal which helps to create solidarity for democracy. When  Kantipur was publishing news about people move .Gorkhapatra. Government owned newspaper was only publishing news on small development issues.                               Radio                                                                                  radioo has largest number of audiences than any other media in   Nepal .Radio is taken as friend of poor as they are cheaper and affordable too. Radio covers 80 percent population of
Nepal .mainly FM stations plays great role during people movement 2006 as they inform about updates of rallies and curfews. Protests    going  on various parts of cities. These updates motivated people to join hands for people rallies. Along with that some FM stations like Nepal FM played patriotic and inspiring song of Ramesh like “gau gau bata utho (awake from every  place) which inspires citizen to ask for their rights.   FM stations motivate to break curfew too.                                                                                                             Television Kantipur TV,Nepal 1 continuously gave news about movement. Kantipur TV used to broadcast live reporting from streets ofKatmandu showing lathi charge and rubber bullet firing done by army and police cadres towards demonstrators .Kantipur news, which is taken as authentic ,broadcasted interview of civil leaded and intellectual who speaks on necessity of democracy                                                                                                                Website  Though only few people use internet inNepal .Internet turned in to important news source for people who were leaving abroad. Website  like ekantipur.com. nepalnews.com.parewa.com. himalkhabar.com updated news on their portal .which spread through out the world in a second. During 20 days, most of that website was visited more than 500thousand times a day. along with news portals  blog site of Nepal such as blog.com.np,bloggers Nepal .com.mysansar .com played a crucial role  to spread  views   of republicanNepal ,role of king .Blog was famous as these  sites are  sites where many intellectual drop their ideas and thoughts.                                                                                          Role of foreign media covering news of people movement of 2006   Previously foreign media always used to portray Nepal as land of
Buddha or a land of innocent and smily people. During Hippie period, they stereotyped Nepal asland ofHippies as at that time it was safe and peace land for Hippie’s t have drugsNews of Nepal was published so rarely in foreign media, but this time it was not so .CNN.BBS fox news covered Nepal events with priority .along with that LA time .New York post published a news report onNepal issues. They  openly criticized step of king and supported people and call for end of terror.Most of the time  foreign  media  used to portrays king as incarnation of god(in Hindu religion  king is taken as god) but this time foreign media  change their  perspectives and wrote and broadcasted what t really a people of Nepal  think about him .