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elated to ethics in community mass media and related areas. In the fourthchapter since ethics is not a basic or relative law effort has been made topoint out that ethics can undergo changes with time. Fifth chapter tries toincorporate laws which are attracted in the course of informationdissemination. Sixth chapter carries differing ethics rendered into Nepali.That will contribute to the task of carrying out comparative analyses.Together with this, a compilation of the ethics enforced in Nepal until nowhave been carried as annexures.The field of journalism can be said to have contracted the long illness themoment our professional mindset ceases to change in tune with the changingsocial contexts. Here facts and conditions may not be wrong but what we mustkeep in mind at the very outset is the outcome may not be savory if their use andcoordination is not desirable. Talking about community means of communicationthere is no alternative to complete involvement. This however does not meanthat community journalists are mere critics and commentators of an incident.One must be able to draw up a strategy of understanding the related issues.His/her role should be more focused on finding a common ground of any crisisthan whipping up controversy. A community journalist cannot be an independentanalyst of any incident; he can be an independent analyst in the domain ofinter-dependence. A community journalist would do well to look for mutualbalance of the qualitative order than merely delving into social complications.Let us revisit an old proverb: My freedom ends there where your nosestarts. That incidentally is the minimum point of ethics.Lastly, it may be noted that I have updated certain sections in the bookfor English language edition.Several people have put in their time and sweat before Radio Pledgecame by. Rajesh Ghimire, Gham Raj Luitel, Dhatri Subedi, Arjun Dhakal,Gopal Tiwari. Mahesh Nepal and Rinchen Yonjan have contributed incompiling necessary information that went into this book. I am indebted tojournalist P Kharel for accepting the responsibility of improving the contentof the book with least grudges. Thanks go to writers Ghanshyam Bhusaland Jivnath Khanal for reading a section of the book and extending vitaladvice. I also thank Badri Paudel who contributed right from the beginningtill the end. Thanks also go to journalist Damaru Lal Bhandari for renderingthe book into English.Similarly, thanks go to Ravin Sayami for designing the cover andDamodar Dawadi for layout No less indebted am I to Community RadioSupport Centre (CRSC) under Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists(NEFEJ) and Free Voice, The Netherlands for extending the opportunity towrite this book.Raghu Mainali4