{"id":15752,"date":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:kanglaonline.com:\/\/5604554c890eb6c3b56d0eb350bbbda4"},"modified":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"experts-reject-idea-to-bring-media-under-lokpal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/1999\/11\/29\/experts-reject-idea-to-bring-media-under-lokpal\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts reject idea to bring media under Lokpal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';var addthis_options=\"Google+1\"<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (IANS) The idea of bringing the media within the ambit of the Lokpal is `bad and mischievious`, say experts who argue that the media is `private` and the ombudsman is an institution `for redressal of grievances and to make the government behave`.<\/p>\n<p>`It is a mischievous idea,` said senior journalist Prem Shankar Jha, rejecting Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav`s idea of `bringing media under Lokpal`.<\/p>\n<p>`If everything will be brought under the Lokpal, what will the judiciary do,` Jha asked.<\/p>\n<p>Though experts agreed there were problems in the media like paid news, they felt the media would have to deal with the issue itself.<\/p>\n<p>Siddhartha Varadarajan, editor, The Hindu, told IANS: `In case the media did something wrong, the law of the land would take care of it.`<\/p>\n<p>He said while involvement of a politician in paid news would come under the Election Commission of India norms, in case a newspaper took cash for publishing such news, it would violate the tax laws.<\/p>\n<p>The experts mentioned there are quasi-judicial watchdogs like the Press Council of India to look into the complaints against media.<\/p>\n<p>`Bringing media under the Lokpal would be like dictatorship,` said Dainik Bhaskar editor Shravan Garg.<\/p>\n<p>`There is no Lokpal like idea in UK, even after the News of The World scandal,` he added.<\/p>\n<p>Garg said the government has allowed 26 percent foreign equity in electronic medium and bringing media within the ambit of the Lokpal would give a wrong message to the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, senior journalist Bhaskar Roy had a different take on the issue. `It is a good idea,` he said.<\/p>\n<p>`If you are probing others, you too should be open to scrutiny. Media`s credentials should be above board.`<\/p>\n<p>The Samajwadi Party chief had demanded in the Lok Sabha Aug 25 that media be brought within the ambit of the Lokpal.<\/p>\n<p>Amid thumping of desks by his colleagues, Yadav had said `a section of the media was taking money and releasing news in favour of a particular party`.<\/p>\n<p>`We suffered at the hands of the media during the polls,` he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yadav went on to say that it had become a practice for the electronic media to collect money during polls and air views in support of one party.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/08\/experts-reject-idea-to-bring-media-under-lokpal\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/08\/experts-reject-idea-to-bring-media-under-lokpal\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (IANS) The idea of bringing the media within the ambit of the Lokpal is `bad and mischievious`, say experts who argue that the media is `private`&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/08\/experts-reject-idea-to-bring-media-under-lokpal\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[330,41],"class_list":["post-15752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}