Our Correspondent
Kohima | September 28
Also addressing the workshop, NPF president Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu said the country is giving importance to the press to the extent that mass communication has become a discipline in the university today. “Sense of social responsibility of journalism to bring facts to the public in impartial manner prevails,” he said.
He said today, even in Nagaland “we find that some newspapers are not totally free from this bondage which may be due to some other obligations, but otherwise on the whole our papers have been doing well.” He was optimistic that journalism in Nagaland can do better in future, because Nagas are democratic by nature. “We have inherited it from our cultural system and, therefore, it is a nature’s gift and that gift should influence your profession towards a better world,” he said.
NPF chief also stated that sometime he convinced that press has its right and freedom of choice either to publish an article if such article is likely to jeopardize peace and harmony in the society or if that writing goes against the interest of the public. He said we cannot deny that Naga people are divided in too many forms, adding that there are few divisive forces working hard to divide the people, to create enmity among the people.
“Some of these forces have been working ceaselessly creating communal feeling,” he said. He urged upon the party men to always remember to play the role of the peace makers.
Dr. Liezietsu also wanted to see that Nagaland newspapers to appear more positive with more good news hitting the headlines in the front page. “I want our papers to carry the positive news more to project the good image of Nagaland to the outside world,” he said adding that the younger generation have been doing very well now bringing laurels and good name to the state in different ways. “Yes, we cannot rule out wrongs in any given society, but those few wrongs should not overshadow the better side of the coin,” he said.
