March 23, 2015     Permalink Third Ethnic Media Conference Submitted by Zin Linn

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Burma: "Sustaining Ethnic Media" via "Third Ethnic Media Conference": click here

However, sudden about turn policies of the current government, elected in 2010 after five-decade of military dictatorship, seem uncertain that the new direction is neither indisputable nor undeviating. Situations seem even trickier than past four years. The reason is that the state owned media industries do better than the ethnic media groups in profit-making via media businesses. Because the state media dig up financial supports from government, while the ethnic media groups never have financial and moral supports from the government. It looks as if government uncared progress of ethnic media news production as well as local-language news. The ethnic media groups are struggling for survival due to lack of financial supports and legal protection by the government.