Benue State University, Makurdi

Government owned Newspapers: The passing of the Trusteeship Model

Rodney Giboh

Abstract

This article examines government ownership of newspapers based on the trusteeship model, which had been dominant since independence and whose influence peaked in the 1970s. The article observes that the political ideology on which these newspapers were established has become obsolete, hence the newspapers have outlived their usefulness and are, in the least, unprofitable even to their owners. It concludes that state newspapers are now on the path of extinction whose passage, none and nothing can prevent.

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