Information Ministry upset with news channels’ coverage on ‘Delhi violence-Russia-Ukraine war’

Often the primary goal of journalism is to inform the readers and viewers about the current activities, but in order to inform the audience about the recent activities of the past, the way some media organizations have chosen the exaggerated and subversive path, as a result of the alleged As a matter of fact, ‘social harmony’ has suffered a deep blow. In view of which advisory was issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and all those media institutions were identified which have worked to increase the enmity between people of different sects in the society by presenting the news in a destructive manner in the past.

Now in the direction of curbing this, this guideline issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will be considered very useful. Let us have a look at the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is mentioned in the guidelines issued by the Ministry that under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, any news channel shall not participate in any such program. Do not transmit, which includes (a) an offense against good taste or decency; (b) Allied criticism; (c) visuals or words attacking religions or communities or contemptuous of religious groups or promoting communal attitudes; (d) includes anything,

obscene, defamatory, intentional, false and suggestive innocence and half-truths; It has been asked to stop broadcasting the programs contained on the channels. For the past few days, news has been presented by the news channels to the audience in such a way that after being refined in the information refinery, it is unauthentic, delusional, exaggerated, Socially disapproved language style, broadcast by channels that violate the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 20 of the above Act. Quoting foreign news agencies on behalf of news channels during the coverage of the Russo-Ukraine War Unfounded claims have been made. During the coverage, derogatory language has been used in the channels.

At the same time, concocted and exaggerated statements were used by the channels to woo the viewers. Coverage of channels during Delhi Violence The circular issued by the ministry states that provocative headlines were used during the coverage of Delhi violence. Videos used to disturb social harmony. Provocative headlines were also used to give a communal color to the riots. It was also observed that some channels in the news broadcast debates with unparliamentary, provocative and socially unacceptable language, communal remarks and derogatory references which may have negative psychological impact on the viewers and may also incite communalism.