{"id":33963,"date":"2018-10-30T15:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33963"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:43:27","slug":"venkaiah-for-single-media-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/venkaiah-for-single-media-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Venkaiah for single media watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/venkaiah-for-single-media-watchdog\/article20494076.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Venkaiah for single media watchdog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self-regulation is not working and there is growing need for a single watchdog for the television and print media, Vice-President, Press Council of India, Venkaiah Naidu said on the occasion of National Press Day.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The necessity of a watchdog<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is need for a single watchdog body for both print and television media, however, regulation should not become strangulation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The watchdog is necessary to guarantee that political and business interests of the owners of media houses did not affect news.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News gets increasingly coloured with views that are consistent with the agenda of the management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barring a few honorable exceptions, the press behaved like a handmaiden of the government, therefore a watchdog is a must.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Credibility affected<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Credibility is becoming a rare commodity. One does not know what to believe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a democracy to thrive, free flow of information is essential. Democracy needs information and dissent but it does not mean disintegration.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venkaiah for single media watchdog Context Self-regulation is not working and there is growing need for a single watchdog for the television and print media, Vice-President, Press Council of India, Venkaiah Naidu said on the occasion of National Press Day. The necessity of a watchdog There is need for a single watchdog body for both&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/venkaiah-for-single-media-watchdog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venkaiah for single media watchdog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704650973},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33963","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}