Mass media in Bangladesh

The mass media in Bangladesh refers to the print, broadcast and online mass media available in Bangladesh.

Quotes

• The government holds power with the help of fundamentalist Islamic groups that are changing Bangladesh s secular character; local Hindus and Christians are fleeing to neighbouring India in the thousands, and the authorities are furious at media reports that Bangladesh is playing host to jihadis from Afghanistan and beyond. Rather than address these concerns, the government has systematically muzzled journalists and Opposition leaders who try to get the story out. Since October, more than 4,000 people have been arrested and 44 have died in custody during a government crackdown supposedly directed at organized crime and euphemistically called Operation Clean Heart.
  • Saleem Samad February 10, 2003 article in Time Asia, quoted in Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 page **123

• The government's acute paranoia contributed to the already existing level of violence against journalists. With at least 250 journalists assaulted or threatened with death, three reporters murdered, 20 newspaper offices or press clubs attacked and 25 journalists detained by the authorities in 12 months, Bangladesh is by far the world's most violent country for journalists. "Not a day goes by without the press reporting an attack or death threat against a journalist," said Nayeemul Islam Khan, a former editor of the daily Ajker Kagoj. This endemic violence against journalists is serious threat to press freedom.
  • Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2003 - Bangladesh

• The Daily Star, one of Dhaka's more successful and progressive newspapers is a model by any media standards. However, the pressures on journalists and editors in Bangladesh is not unfamiliar to those in Pakistan.
  • Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 , 126