PRINT MEDIA OBJECTIVITY AND JOURNALISTIC ETHICS

The study was to find out how unethical press reportage brings about sour relationship between the state and the press and also how the presses are ridiculed by the government due to accurate and factual reports. The problem was to assess the extent, which sour state press relations affects press reportage. The research design used for this study was random sampling which the researcher examined different editions each of two newspapers. The press should report accurate and factual reportage and the government should give the press a chance to avoid sour state – press fends. Over the years, there had been cases of sour state – press relations in Akwa Ibom, cases where the state have been abused by the press and the press by the state. This study is to delve into the causes of this abuses and the way by which it can be salvages.