A Public Service Broadcasti​ng Model for Developing Countries: The Case of Cambodia

Some academic findings below might shed some lights on the need and challenges to establish independent media in Cambodia:

Here are some quotes from the PhD dissertation titled "A Public Service Broadcasting Model for Developing Countries: The Case of Cambodia" by Sothearith IM:

- "The prerequisites for the establishment of a PBS system hardly exist in Cambodia at the time the study was conducted in 2008."

- This was due to the fact that the ruling party dominated the political scene and strictly controls the existing media system, from which it derived important political benefits;

- ...Civil society and donors were neither sufficiently strong nor had an interest in exerting pressure on the government to reform the existing media system and to place the establishment of a PBS on its agenda; and Cambodian society lacked a participatory culture, which was one of the crucial requirements for establishment of a PBS system as well as for democracy.

- "...an independent media system such as a PBS could easily emerge when political life was no longer controlled by a single political party."

KI-Media Note: PBS stands for Public Broadcasting System
Im Sothearith - A Public Service Broadcasting Model for Developing Countries the Case of Cambodia
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