Surveillance is becoming a key concern during the Covid-19 crisis. The Supreme Court has also directed media to publish the official version of the developments.
Major newspapers, including The Australian & Sydney Morning Herald, published front pages with most of the text blacked out, highlighting a growing culture of secrecy.
Whether the Prime Minister's statement on press freedom is a “threat” for dissenting media houses will depend on what media houses consider their jobs to be.
Article 124(2) and Article 200 did not have words now imported into them by the Supreme Court. “Consultation” has already become “concurrence” and now appointment could be “deemed”.
16 vendors left Mussoorie following a hate crime in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. Police asked all of them to go back to Kashmir for 'their safety'.
Entire Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH) fleet for Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard was grounded after a Coast Guard helicopter crash killed 3 personnel in January.
At some point, Pakistan’s calculation has been, Hindus will rise in reprisal against their own minorities. That’s a crisis ISI has been conjuring up in India. A nation at war with itself.
Sevanti says “But it cannot ask the media to stick to government-given facts only.” but haven’t given an example of what are the other sources of facts on Corona status in India. Can it be a mathematical model churning propaganda figures as facts? or a BBC reports based on half truths. If media can avoid the anti government propaganda, nobody has problems with the alternate sources of facts and only facts and not propaganda.
The media observes responsibility and restraint while reporting sensitive issues, in India and all over the world. Especially in times of war, which this pandemic in some senses is. India’s journalists have a fine, seventy year record of giving us world class reporting, despite the vast gulf in the resources it possesses in comparison to the West. 2. What causes concern in fact is the swathe of media that has become an echo chamber. Amplifying spin. Often spreading a toxic message of communalism and jingoism. Not above propagating fake news. Allowing lapses in governance to go unquestioned.
Sevanti says “But it cannot ask the media to stick to government-given facts only.” but haven’t given an example of what are the other sources of facts on Corona status in India. Can it be a mathematical model churning propaganda figures as facts? or a BBC reports based on half truths. If media can avoid the anti government propaganda, nobody has problems with the alternate sources of facts and only facts and not propaganda.
Conduct of SC has been a very big disappointment.
Ha ha, afraid of your empire coming under threat ?
The media observes responsibility and restraint while reporting sensitive issues, in India and all over the world. Especially in times of war, which this pandemic in some senses is. India’s journalists have a fine, seventy year record of giving us world class reporting, despite the vast gulf in the resources it possesses in comparison to the West. 2. What causes concern in fact is the swathe of media that has become an echo chamber. Amplifying spin. Often spreading a toxic message of communalism and jingoism. Not above propagating fake news. Allowing lapses in governance to go unquestioned.