Community Radio Pledge (pdf) - amarc

Talking about it in Nepalese perspective traditions like dowry, veil andchild marriage have received a dent. Women are now increasingly getting toown property. Sexual intercourse against the wish of the woman is nowbeing defined as rape even if she may be the wife. Their jurisdiction isexpanding out from the kitchen.Similarly, changes have swept financial regime too. People have learnednew lessons from the conflict between feudalism, capitalism and socialism.There are demands for parity in distribution. Work and exploitation havebeen defined. Liberalism and privatization has replaced state control oneconomy. Demands have come for participation in each and every activityof the state. And relations surrounding production have changed.People are coming to believe that one falls sick due to biologicaldisorders and not due to divine curse. People are increasingly refrainingfrom seeking divine blessing for better health and thus visiting hospitalsand clinics. Food, dress, cosmetics and means of entertainment apart fromgender, caste, class and color are facing changes too.Contemporaneously, technology is playing an important role in bringingsociety closer. Technology has brought about fundamental changes inrealities surrounding man, faith, and understanding. Apart from newpossibilities thrown up by scientific inventions plenty of opportunitieshave come up. Technology has come to the rescue whenever it comes tomanage certain things in effective manner. Technology has come to the aidwhen it comes to achieve a lot with minimum of human and financial cost.But along with the expansion of technology there are now possibilities ofdangers and abuses of technology. Now one can morph pictures the way onewants. Now one can so edit anyone’s remark in such a way that one canbroadcast altogether different material while the voice may remain unchanged.For example you had recorded a sentence in which was Ram saying "I had notsaid this." Just in the event the recordist has ulterior motives he can so tamperwith the recording that he can delete "not" in the sentence and achieve theobjective since the technology comes to the aid. The end result "I had said it"comes right from Ram’s lips. This, of course, is not the case.The technological development has rendered the task of announcingthe death of a person as a controversial proposition. Hi-tech equipment cankeep the blood circulation and breathing process of a terminally dead personas normal. This was the reason why the news concerning the death of LatePrime minister Manmohan Adhikari became controversial. Newspapers hadended up trading charges and counter-chargers depending on the faiththey upheld.Just because journalism is the organized process of social and humancommunication, it should be able to address each and every changeovertaking society. Current age is the age that marks the end of traditionalsocial life and harbinger of the modern ways of life. Which has brought in80