KATHMANDU, Oct 3: The voice of senior citizens remains unheard and they are found invisible in the media outlets during disaster, a recently concluded research reveals.

“The content analysis after the earthquake in 2015 for the period of three months shows that hardly thirty-six news stories in relation to senior citizens were recorded from three leading newspapers based in Kathmandu,” said Chun Bahadur Gurung presenting a paper titled 'Media Response to Older People during Disaster'.

“While a privately-run daily newspaper in Nepali language covered 59 percent of the total stories related to elderly people and an English daily 14 percent, interestingly the government-run newspapers covered only 27 percent of the stories,” he said.

The report was made public on the occasion of the International Day of Elderly People during an event organized by Rights and Dignity Centre (RDC), Kathmandu.

 
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