Following a 3 month research project entitled ‘Media Ownership Monitoring Mongolia’, conducted in association with the Germanbranch of Reporters Without Borders, the Press Institute of Mongolia reported that 74% of all media in Mongolia is influenced by the political sector.
As of 2016, there were 485 media organizations including 101 newspapers, 69 radio stations, 131 television stations, 98 media web sites and 86 magazines in Mongolia. The research project involved 11 television stations, 6 radio stations, 10 web sites and 12 newspapers.
74% is high, indicating that the freedom of the public to access accurate information free from propaganda or black PR is being damaged.
The research team remarked that as media influences people’s attitudes and political views. When media is owned, controlled or used by politicians and political organizations, it harms and slows the main threads of democracy and pluralism.
The reason that the political influences conquered the media is that there is no regulatory framework governing this situation. Besides the ownership percentages mentioned aboveother issues were revealed during the research, including:
- More than half of media organizations conceal the sources of their finance;
- Concealing ownership is not prohibited;
- the freedom of press is guaranteed by law but not effective in practice
- Independence of redacting is limited
- Media organizations get the license from the government and.
The report also stated that media organizations and journalists are threatened fairly often.
The director of the Press Institute, Mr Monkhmandakh stated that relations between politics and businesses is the main reason that the journalists and media organizations getting threatened. Being depended on finance (economic situation) and politic make media organizations to work for the owners, but not for public or society.
Journalists in Mongolia are not paid well and work on a piece basis, hence the value of journalism goes down.
The Director of the Reporters Without Borders in Germany remarked that professional journalism is the 4th and most powerful pillar of democracy. But to make it reality, we have to improve the framework.
Following a 3 month research project entitled ‘Media Ownership Monitoring Mongolia’, conducted in association with the Germanbranch of Reporters Without Borders, the Press Institute of Mongolia reported that 74% of all media in Mongolia is influenced by the political sector.
As of 2016, there were 485 media organizations including 101 newspapers, 69 radio stations, 131 television stations, 98 media web sites and 86 magazines in Mongolia. The research project involved 11 television stations, 6 radio stations, 10 web sites and 12 newspapers.
74% is high, indicating that the freedom of the public to access accurate information free from propaganda or black PR is being damaged.
The research team remarked that as media influences people’s attitudes and political views. When media is owned, controlled or used by politicians and political organizations, it harms and slows the main threads of democracy and pluralism.
The reason that the political influences conquered the media is that there is no regulatory framework governing this situation. Besides the ownership percentages mentioned aboveother issues were revealed during the research, including:
- More than half of media organizations conceal the sources of their finance;
- Concealing ownership is not prohibited;
- the freedom of press is guaranteed by law but not effective in practice
- Independence of redacting is limited
- Media organizations get the license from the government and.
The report also stated that media organizations and journalists are threatened fairly often.
The director of the Press Institute, Mr Monkhmandakh stated that relations between politics and businesses is the main reason that the journalists and media organizations getting threatened. Being depended on finance (economic situation) and politic make media organizations to work for the owners, but not for public or society.
Journalists in Mongolia are not paid well and work on a piece basis, hence the value of journalism goes down.
The Director of the Reporters Without Borders in Germany remarked that professional journalism is the 4th and most powerful pillar of democracy. But to make it reality, we have to improve the framework.
