Adoption of Members of the Kurdistan Region Parliament on the News at the Kurdish Televisions in the Fight against Financial Corruption

Abstract

The aim of the study is to find out to what extent Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) monitoring centres rely on the reports from Kurdish news channels in fighting financial corruption. We have chossen members of the Kurdistan Parliament to fill out the surveys drafted for this purpose. While the parliament is the highest legislative and supervisory authority, one of main duties of its members is to monitor government activities and its defects. Therefore, news reports on financial corruption could have an impact to make them more active in fighting it. After collecting the data from conducted surveys, we found out that the impact of news reports on financial corruption from news channels on parliament members is at a moderate rate, that means the news reports could not have any impact on cases of financial corruption. Thus, the study suggests to the news channels to pay more attention to those types of news and double check the data and information with different sources so that increase trust among receivers