[ 2017-02-22 ]

Appointments Committee of Parliament

Parliament’s image dips due to bribery allegation - Report
Parliament has suffered a major blow to its public
image due largely to its recent appointments
committee bribery allegations, a report by the
Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), an independent
media monitoring agency, said on Tuesday.

The report, compiled through CMA’s strategic
analysis of print media news contents, called on
the leadership of the august house and its
communication managers to put strategic and
pragmatic measures in place to re-affirm its
renowned respect and image.

The Centre analysed the tone of 227 news stories
on Parliament in 32 newspapers; comprising state
and privately owned newspapers, published from
January 2 to 31, 2017.

Out of the 227 news stories, 107 expressed
negative sentiments about Parliament, representing
47 percent, 86 news stories were positive,
representing 38 percent, and 34 stories were
neutral, representing 15 percent.

“News contents construct pictures in the minds
of the public and, hence, this negative sentiment
rating in the month of January was likely to
affect Parliament’s credibility in the long
run,” the report said.

The study, dubbed; Parliamentary News Analysis
Index, forms part of the Centre’s detailed and
on-going analysis of the first 100 days of the
President, Ministers, Legislators and the arms of
government and its agencies.

Source - GNA

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