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Media cannot be a judge, say politicians
Sunday January 29, 2012 06:10:59 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Jammu and
Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Railway Minister Dinesh
Trivedi feel the media should not play the role of a judge --
because it can hurt a person's image.
"We don't have any problem with the truth. But if you (media)
create something and want us to believe that a snake is a rope
because that's your breaking story, then we have a problem,"
Trivedi said at a panel discussion at the Kolkata Literary Meet.
Abdullah said: "I don't have a problem with the media playing the
role of a prosecutor. It can ask uneasy questions, it can do
investigative stories. I have a problem with the media playing the
role of a judge. It should not pronounce a judgment that a man is
guilty."
He said trial by the media was a problem because the trial leads
to a judgement.
Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai countered Trivedi and Abdullah, saying
the media was accountable to its viewers and readers.
He pointed out the instances of the Jessica Lal and Nitish Katara
cases where justice was delivered after an extensive media
campaign seeking justice.
But Sardesai conceded that the media should not play the role of a
judge.
Abdullah also called for some amount of self-regulation in the
social media where people in public life were subjected to all
kinds of abuse by anonymous people.
The maiden edition of KLM is being held as part of the 36th
Kolkata Book Fair.
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