{"id":157725,"date":"2021-12-31T19:19:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=157725"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:49:52","slug":"judges-journos-cji-is-partly-right-on-the-media-mixing-news-and-views-but-judges-should-be-less-prickly-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/judges-journos-cji-is-partly-right-on-the-media-mixing-news-and-views-but-judges-should-be-less-prickly-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges & journos: CJI is partly right on the media mixing news and views. But judges should be less prickly too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/span><\/b>: <\/span>Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, <\/span>in a recent event, expressed worry about how news and views are being mixed together in today\u2019s time.<\/span> He also talked about the \u201crecent trend to sermonise about judgments, and villainise judges\u201d
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The article urges the judiciary to be less prickly (irritable)<\/em> about criticism, including when not just judgments but judges too are criticised.<\/p>\n

Why the judiciary should take constructive criticism sportingly?<\/h5>\n

Separation of news and views is very essential for effective functioning of a democracy, but constructive criticism is also equally important.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part of the media\u2019s job<\/strong> is to report on and analyse and, in its opinion columns, criticise not just political leaders but all powerful players in the system \u2013 from the police to armed forces and judges to corporates.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As these institutes take decisions of great public significance, they should be encouraging of these criticisms<\/strong> which also reflect the plurality of voices<\/strong> in a democracy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the same spirit, the Supreme court can also give a thought to decriminalise what is termed as \u2018scandalising the court\u2019<\/strong>. This provision doesn\u2019t sit well in a democracy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/span><\/b>This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span>Judges & journos: CJI is partly right on the media mixing news and views. But judges should be less prickly too\u201d <\/span><\/b>published Times of India\u00a0on<\/span> 31st<\/sup> Dec 2021<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, in a recent event, expressed worry about how news and views are being mixed together in today\u2019s time. He also talked about the \u201crecent trend to sermonise about judgments, and villainise judges\u201d The article urges the judiciary to be less prickly (irritable) about criticism, including when not just… Continue reading Judges & journos: CJI is partly right on the media mixing news and views. But judges should be less prickly too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-157725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704865541},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}