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coming from Supreme Court, and government decisions should be puton priority.6. News related to nation, nationalism, national culture and social valuesand dignity must be prioritized.7. News which hits the sanctity of the fundamental basis of the constitution,constitutional monarchy, territorial integrity of the nation, andmultiparty democracy apart from news that denigrates the dignity ofparliament, court and constitutional bodies should be discouraged.8. Policy guidelines issues by His Majesty’s Government, news relatedto development program and relief provided to the people must beprioritized.9. Importance should be given to news concerning law and order, goodgovernance and control of corruption while news that creates opinionagainst Maoist insurgency is duly prioritized.10. News which incites unwanted excitement should be discouraged. Butwhile giving news that highlight the negative impact of the violenceand terror, point should be made to ensure that the same creates opinionagainst criminals and criminal acts.11. While reporting terror which might have erupted in any part of the countryfor some reason or while reporting death following firing in any incident orwhile reporting loss of property point should be made to carry newsreceived only from the concerned spokesman of His Majesty’s Governmentor other credible sources.12. Remarks of national importance coming from political parties includingthe main opposition and their leaders should be carried with priority.13. News related to the nationally recognized political party must be givenproportional importance.14. News related to non-national political parties must be given due spacebased on news value.15. While the news that can consolidate foreign relation in true spirit ofnon-alignment movement should be prioritized, the news that can goagainst neighbors especially China and India must be dropped.16. While carrying international news, priority must be given to SAARCcountries and nations which extend economic assistance to Nepal whilethe news that can affect the diplomatic relations with those countries isdropped.17. Except news of international, national and public importance, othernews generated in conference of any department and news generatedin interaction sessions and symposiums should not be given anypriority.18. While carrying news thrown up by convention and seminar pointshould be made to highlight the achievement and recommendation ofthe same.27
19. While awarding priority order to series of news stories point should bemade to award top priority if any news item is expected to contribute tosociety in a positive way even if it comes from some lowly official.20. News related to development activities and their achievement must beprioritized.21. Except news related to regular meetings and interactions betweendiplomats, special pieces of news related to the same must be prioritized.22. Space must be given to important decisions taken by parliamentarycommittees from time to time.23. Space must be given to creative criticism and comments coming fromconcerned responsible bodies after enumerating the weaknesses andmistakes of the government.24. News surrounding national icons and persons nationally known shouldbe carried both when they are honored and when they pass away.25. News of human interest should be given desired space.26. Priority should not be given to news related to participation except inthe case of the event which involves participation of national leadershipin the international conference.27. Generally speaking priority should not be given to events like booklaunches, school anniversary functions, blood donation and officereview meetings.28. News which can spread religious discordance and set in bad bloodamong religions, castes, communities and regions should not be carried.29. Efforts must be taken to include news which comes in half an hourbefore in the case of radio and one hour before in the case of televisionin the next bulletin.30. Depending on the importance of the news, no news must be aired orcarried more than three times.While commenting on the policy followed in the case of programs,Radio Nepal Program Director, Rajendra Sharma, had the following to say:When it comes to programs, Radio Nepal airs programs of such anature that contribute to the task of binding all the Nepalese together keepingin mind the compliance to the constitution and laws of Nepal and alsomutual understanding, reconciliation and diversity across nationalities,castes and languages.Materials which are sexually explicit or materials which undermine orhurt members of any community, religion or independent citizen are notcarried at all. Since such items are difficult to be defined there are timeswhen discretion is used. Under a tradition followed at Radio Nepal, programsare aired after a hearing committee vets the programs. Thus, programsassessed as fit alone are aired by Radio Nepal.28
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