The finance ministry under the Modi government has barred entry of all journalists, including PIB accredited, in the North Block without prior appointment.
Latest incident came Sunday when 30-40 journalists were ‘locked up’ in a room in a Moradabad hospital where CM Yogi Adityanath was on an inspection visit.
Sharing the video of a woman proposing marriage to Yogi Adityanath had led to the arrest of journalists Prashant Kanojia, Anuj Shukla and Ishika Singh.
Many journalists have been booked for extortion, blackmail & false propaganda, and there’s a growing sense that the rot starts at the top of the Kannada media.
Taha Siddiqui narrowly escaped an abduction attempt last year. Living in Paris in self-imposed exile, he now fears assassination if he returns to Pakistan.
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Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Sadly, the media has completely abandoned its commitment to ascertain the truth of a report and its capacity ( or willingness?) to ask questions of clearly mendacious leaders, who spew blatant lies and false allegations with as little compunction as they spit their Paans. How did Rahul’s Rafale get so much steam in the media without their happily ‘reporting’ verbatim whatever he said without any effort to point out how utterly false it all was? In one word, the profession has turned ‘irresponsible’.
To Mr Sekhri’s point that Twitter accounts don’t count. Hello? I’m a citizen and I trust these accounts way more than the country’s agenda-driven left liberal media. It’s so condescending of him to decide on our behalf and talk down to us from his pulpit as to what is or is not good for me. Just the type of elite arrogance that has made billions like me disillusioned with this lot.
I also think that he has got his point about feudal politician mindsets upside down. I think that for all these 50/60-something ministers in the government to embrace the latest information dissemination tech is very modern and progressive and the opposite of feudal.
On the other hand it’s this forcible imposition of traditional journalists as controllers of information that is feudal and outdated. As a citizen I owe these journalists nothing, especially given that their real agenda is to hate on one politician.
The media represents the majesty of ordinary citizens in a democracy, most of all their right to know what is happening in public spaces, ask searching questions, shine unforgiving light on dark recesses, nooks and corners. The RTI Act is one of UPA’s stellar achievements. File notings, the heart of decision making in government, are accessible to the public. As are Cabinet papers, once the decision has been taken. Viewed against that impulse for transparency, what possible harm can an accredited journalist cause by dropping in for a cup of sarkari chai and a friendly chat with a mandarin. After the Pentagon Papers judgment of the US Supreme Court, a journalist ferreting out classified information – barring something whose disclosure may actually harm national security, rigidly defined – acting in utmost good faith is performing a public service and her professional duty. Keeping her out raises questions, doubts, misgivings …
What you say may be correct, if Barkha kind of people collect information to pass on with a specific agenda of maligning and targeting someone. Media has not been unbiased and have always their view to be heard. If they are the messengers for common people, they should be more responsible than infusing their biased thoughts in the minds of ordinary citizens. So long they carry their hidden agenda and most of them are paid journalists, the suspicion is always bound remain. Right to know has its own limitations. It should not be like live telecasting terrosits actions for their own TRP in a way giving publicity to offenders. The day media behaves responsibly, there can be healthy discussion.
Sadly, the media has completely abandoned its commitment to ascertain the truth of a report and its capacity ( or willingness?) to ask questions of clearly mendacious leaders, who spew blatant lies and false allegations with as little compunction as they spit their Paans. How did Rahul’s Rafale get so much steam in the media without their happily ‘reporting’ verbatim whatever he said without any effort to point out how utterly false it all was? In one word, the profession has turned ‘irresponsible’.
To Mr Sekhri’s point that Twitter accounts don’t count. Hello? I’m a citizen and I trust these accounts way more than the country’s agenda-driven left liberal media. It’s so condescending of him to decide on our behalf and talk down to us from his pulpit as to what is or is not good for me. Just the type of elite arrogance that has made billions like me disillusioned with this lot.
I also think that he has got his point about feudal politician mindsets upside down. I think that for all these 50/60-something ministers in the government to embrace the latest information dissemination tech is very modern and progressive and the opposite of feudal.
On the other hand it’s this forcible imposition of traditional journalists as controllers of information that is feudal and outdated. As a citizen I owe these journalists nothing, especially given that their real agenda is to hate on one politician.
The media represents the majesty of ordinary citizens in a democracy, most of all their right to know what is happening in public spaces, ask searching questions, shine unforgiving light on dark recesses, nooks and corners. The RTI Act is one of UPA’s stellar achievements. File notings, the heart of decision making in government, are accessible to the public. As are Cabinet papers, once the decision has been taken. Viewed against that impulse for transparency, what possible harm can an accredited journalist cause by dropping in for a cup of sarkari chai and a friendly chat with a mandarin. After the Pentagon Papers judgment of the US Supreme Court, a journalist ferreting out classified information – barring something whose disclosure may actually harm national security, rigidly defined – acting in utmost good faith is performing a public service and her professional duty. Keeping her out raises questions, doubts, misgivings …
What you say may be correct, if Barkha kind of people collect information to pass on with a specific agenda of maligning and targeting someone. Media has not been unbiased and have always their view to be heard. If they are the messengers for common people, they should be more responsible than infusing their biased thoughts in the minds of ordinary citizens. So long they carry their hidden agenda and most of them are paid journalists, the suspicion is always bound remain. Right to know has its own limitations. It should not be like live telecasting terrosits actions for their own TRP in a way giving publicity to offenders. The day media behaves responsibly, there can be healthy discussion.