In order to be sovereign media in the sovereign India Katju asked media fraternity immediate formation of joint committee. Press Council of India (PCI) chief Justice Markandey Katju on Monday reached out to Editors of leading news channels proposing formation of a joint committee which would work to protect the freedom of Indian media. In a letter addressed to Broadcast Editors' Association he said that in many parts of India physical attacks had taken place against media persons, while in other places governments had pressurised the proprietor to sack or transfer journalists who write against them. In his letter, Katju clarified although the Press Council deals only with the print media, he has been fighting for freedom of the electronic media too example in Karnataka
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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